I have a degree in Engineering and my very first Engineering class was a stupid class about Engineering ethics in which we learned why that ever-popular sticker is on lawnmowers that says "please keep hands and feet away from blade while it's in motion." Now, one would think that most anyone capable of reading the sticker would also have the common sense to keep their hands and feet away from a moving mower blade, but there was once this guy who didn't and as a way to CYA by the lawnmower making companies, they put this sticker there from that point on. Because guess what...the company lost the case. Moral of the story: as an engineer you need to try to envision all ways possible that someone might use your product.Science wrote:Very Ridiculous.ImNotDedYet wrote:Not ridiculous.Science wrote:Ridiculous! Moog is giving it out freely and already stated that it is a beta and and can not be responsible for errors. asmmarsh100 wrote:Without explicit permission from Moog, I would say no
As someone who has owned over 45 synths in the past 35 years (counting doubles) i would say i can handle it.
It's typical that beta users agree to specific things in order to be a beta tester - such as how to and perhaps how often to submit bug reports, agreements from a legal standpoint that it's beta, could screw up your system and as such you accept the responsibility, etc.
In this litigious age, I don't see anything ridiculous about it at all.
well we will have to agree to disagree on what is and is not Ridiculous.
I don't know if Moog does this for betas - I mean, it's a synthesizer. But I could envision a scenario where some professional studio has a Sub37 and a patch ready to record for an upcoming deadline, but installs the latest beta which bricks their Sub and now either they have to come up with a patch on a different synth which isn't as good or blow the deadline. And now they lose some contract yada yada yada. And...they sue Moog.
Ridiculous? Yes. Realistic possibility? Yes. Ridiculous that someone would consider suing in this case? Yes. But unfortunately, that's the way things are here in the States. Perhaps you live in a country that isn't so sue-happy, but I work for a hardware company (not music hardware) and we have a beta program. And people have to sign up for it because they have to agree to terms for it.
Just remember that in the morning when you're drinking your freshly purchased coffee contained in a cup that has a warning that the contents inside are hot either on the cup itself or on the lid.