MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death

Have you ever really read the license agreements that come with the software that you use on a daily basis? Yakov Fain did and to his surprise he found that Microsoft warns it's users that using Java maybe fatal.
The software product may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines , or weapon systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.


Is this marketing gone mad or does Microsoft know something that we don't?


Threaded replies
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by Kirk Pepperdine on Thu Dec 22 08:55:47 EST 2005
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by bruno chevalier on Thu Dec 22 10:38:04 EST 2005
· License by Kevin Hooke on Thu Dec 22 10:55:03 EST 2005
· Re: License by John Wrynn on Tue Mar 07 17:03:20 EST 2006
· OoOoOoOoh really !!!!!!! by Raken Silberchatz on Tue Dec 27 08:50:41 EST 2005
· Wow.... by Soumen Chatterjee on Tue Dec 27 15:41:48 EST 2005
· You should patent the hair growth solution! by Yakov Fain on Mon Jan 02 16:10:06 EST 2006
· It's based on the java license by Seth Taplin on Tue Jan 03 12:37:27 EST 2006
· Amusing but...here is a quote from Sun's.. by alexander yershov on Tue Jan 03 14:26:00 EST 2006
· JMARS by Shivarajan Varadarajan on Wed Mar 08 03:53:58 EST 2006
· True Life and Death Development Languages by Matt DeC on Wed Mar 08 08:58:57 EST 2006
· really java kills!! by amit b on Fri Dec 23 03:43:04 EST 2005
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by James Watson on Fri Dec 23 14:09:57 EST 2005
· NO by ahmed ali on Wed Dec 28 05:22:32 EST 2005
· Java kills by S zaidi on Fri Dec 30 02:29:48 EST 2005
· Re: MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by Todd Gamble on Tue Jan 03 12:14:55 EST 2006
· Re: MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by aditya kakani on Wed Mar 08 12:52:30 EST 2006
· OH NO - WHY DIDN'T SOMEONE TELL ME EARLIER!!! by Ron Chan on Tue Jan 03 12:58:09 EST 2006
· Just some more words ... by Gustavo Nunes Ferreira on Tue Jan 03 13:15:25 EST 2006
· noted by Erick Reid on Tue Jan 03 13:19:35 EST 2006
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by Christian Vest Hansen on Tue Jan 03 17:12:53 EST 2006
· Switch to .NET by Jayant Kayarkar on Tue Jan 03 22:51:27 EST 2006
· Bread is much more dangerous by Daniel Vermes on Wed Jan 04 05:08:22 EST 2006
· Well that explains alot by Bob Mengert on Wed Jan 04 08:09:18 EST 2006
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by Jevgeni Kabanov on Thu Jan 05 04:36:23 EST 2006
· Oh well by Alex Shneyderman on Tue Mar 07 16:44:11 EST 2006
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by Parimal Khedkar on Tue Mar 07 21:01:44 EST 2006
· Maybe MS will kill you by S Sudhindra on Wed Mar 08 00:06:37 EST 2006
· Maybe MS will kill you : Wo wee Robosapien.... by Shivarajan Varadarajan on Wed Mar 08 03:52:12 EST 2006
· You don't say by Gray Phelps on Wed Mar 08 04:13:37 EST 2006
· MS License: Using Java Could Lead to Death by Manoj Khandelwal on Fri Mar 10 10:30:56 EST 2006