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That's one extreme extrapolation. How about, if this happens, it will be the end of commercial IP and the closed-web. Only open source with its inherent transpa
by parksy 5y ago
That's one extreme extrapolation. How about, if this happens, it will be the end of commercial IP and the closed-web. Only open source with its inherent transparency and broad, distributed contributors (who would you sue? everybody at once?) and constant, real-time updates and improvements without lock-in or planned obsolescence would thrive when improved regulation gives avenues for redress and improves consumer awareness of security, as consumers flee the commercial silos in droves.
- kragen 5y agoThe regulations would be tailored to favor free software if the free software community had better lobbyists than the commercial silos. You can see that isn't the case. Instead you can look at existing heavily regulated software markets to see what would happen: medical-device software, avionics software, car engine control units, cryptography before 01996, tax preparation software, PCI compliance measures. A vast wasteland of incompetence, waste, government graft, monopolies and duopolies, truly staggering profits, and easily avoidable deaths. Consider: why aren't you wearing a Holter monitor? How about an automated electric defibrillator? Why isn't cryptographic security integrated into all the internet protocols? How's that Bitcoin rollout going in El Salvador?
- matheusmoreira 5y agoOne can only dream. What's likely to happen is the software industry will lobby the government and kill any law that doesn't favor their business model.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThat is an unrealistic scenario and it also not desirable to get rid of commercial software. It would give large enterprises a software monopoly.