Hardware Liability? (Score 0)

If people are going to hold manufacturers liable for their buggy/insecure software, then why not hardware manufactures as well?

I've seen whole RAID arrays rendered useless because of a problematic controller (no backups too, heh), is Adaptec liable for the loss in data/money/time in the same way that Microsoft/Sun/etc is liable because Joe Admin's machines go down when he didn't apply patches?