Any company that can hire teams of software developers can afford to hire a lawyer to tell them whether they need to irritate all their customers. And frankly, they'd be dumb not to hire a lawyer if they think they need some legal cover to determine whether that cover is sufficient.
Good god. I certainly wasn't suggesting this situation would be improved by software teams hiring lawyers to advise on their software! You appear to have completely lost perspective.
You think a company worried that they have a legal issue should just ask the programmers and ui designers to sort it out? Or that programmers who think the company has a legal issue should take it upon themselves to come up with a feature that they think addresses it without consulting legal?
