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You 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
by dwild 8y ago
You 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 8y 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 8y 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 8y 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?