Timeline for Should licencing questions really be closed even when it is massive vendor with standard practices worldwide?
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 17:15 | comment | added | JamesRyan | The exact same legal responsibility falls on professionals giving technical advice too, a lot of people just don't realise that. You do not have to have been paid for advice to bear a legal responsibility for it. It is not the subject of the advice that makes it a minefield, it is giving advice at all. Lawyers are cautious because they are particularly aware of this, not because they are talking law (also they like being paid!). In my question I ruled out legal questions specifically to avoid this confusion. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 16:55 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @JamesRyan There is a HUGE difference between someone being A lawyer and someone being YOUR lawyer (The former entitles you to nothing; The latter has incumbent rights and responsibilities on both parties). In fact every lawyer I know who talks about law/legal advice in public fora will only do it in the most general terms (even then advising you to seek counsel at the end, and including a disclaimer like "I am a lawyer, but I am not YOUR lawyer - If you want to remedy that situation contact me and we can discuss fees and terms".) | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:08 | comment | added | JamesRyan | How do we judge an answerer's professional ability though, score? What if someone has built up answering questions about IIS and then gives bad advice about RAID partitions? What if an answerer IS a lawyer or licencing professional and has built up their reputation on those type of questions? At the end of the day a questioner has to take any answer with a pinch of salt because they don't know the skill or correctness of a given answer. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:56 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @JamesRyan: Here on SF we expect people to be professionals. As such they should be able to assess the advice provided and proceed with suitable caution. With licensing you really can’t do that unless you’re a lawyer. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:49 | comment | added | JamesRyan | So when someone follows your technical advice and breaks something, would they not have been in a better standing if they could show they went directly to the companies own technical support? | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:39 | history | answered | user9517Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |