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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
Background
You work at a local hospital and are discussing the issue that malware was introduced to the digital patient records system. The Uniform Commercial Code, which governs businesses in every state except Louisiana, covers the implied warranty of merchantability. The warranty’s basic premise is that a company selling goods guarantees that the products will do what they are designed to do (i.e., a car will transport you from place to place) and that there are no significant defects in the product. But computers are routinely sold with only trial versions of anti-malware software. Computer hardware manufacturers don’t make OS software, but they sell computers that would be unusable without an OS.
Question
Does the failure of OS manufacturers to include anti-malware tools constitute a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability? Why or why not?
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