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Why can't we legislate that getting owned by npm is your own fault? Driving a car that hasn't passed minimal safety and status checks in many European countrie
by dcbadacd 7y ago
Why can't we legislate that getting owned by npm is your own fault?
Driving a car that hasn't passed minimal safety and status checks in many European countries is forbidden, why not forbid the use of stupid package managers?
- dwild 7y agoYou realize that a car is much more dangerous than a GPS location right? A package manager is just that, a package manager. Legislate as much as you want over software where live are in dangers, sure. I would be happy to see legislation over software like the one for the Therac-25, but legislation over package manager? Yeah no... You also want to add minimal safety laws over shoes too?
- dcbadacd 7y agoYou realize it depends where and why the GPS location was collected? For example the GPS location leaked by a gay dating app in certain countries means certain death for the person.
- dwild 7y agoWow you were quick to read and comment. I updated it before seeing your answer. Sure it depends, which is exactly the point that I meant. A package manager is a use case pretty large. You wouldn't have the same safety requirement over both shoes and cars, thus the same apply to software.
- dcbadacd 7y agoIndeed, a piece of software needs to be looked at in proper context, but that doesn't mean we should continue with the current wild west - if you sell a piece of software why shouldn't there be authorities that monitor the software not to be malicious? We have alcohol licenses for example, why not have the same with software?