When Sued for Negligence, a Software Developer Is Not Held

When sued for negligence, a software developer is not held responsible for every product defect that could have been detected that causes customer or third-party loss. Instead, responsibility is limited to ____.

A) harmful defects that could have been detected and corrected through "reasonable" software development practices
B) the most harmful defects that cause the most serious problems
C) those defects uncovered in the first 90 days of product usage
D) those defects for which no software upgrades have been released