Tara Calishain sent along a pointer to this story: the Washington state Supreme Court ruled that shrinkwrap licenses are legally binding in a case where a construction firm sued a software company when a bug in the software caused them to underbid on a project by $1.95 million. I’m thinking that the construction firm should have reviewed the bid before submitting it, but I also think that allowing companies to disclaim responsibility for their mistakes like that is foolish. Certainly it doesn’t move us toward higher quality software. The scary thing is that UCITA hasn’t passed in Washington yet. Just wait until software makers can use UCITA to totally abuse their customers …