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This makes no sense. Open source doesn't collect my personal information. (Except when it does, which is bad behavior.) Anyway, the law is capable of making rea
by neolog 5y ago
This makes no sense. Open source doesn't collect my personal information. (Except when it does, which is bad behavior.) Anyway, the law is capable of making reasonable distinctions where necessary.
- kragen 5y agoNearly every website that collects your personal information is running lots of open-source software. Sometimes, as with PHPSESSID and httpd logs collecting your IP, the collecting of that information is automatically done by that open-source software.
- neolog 5y agoThe configuration defaults will evolve but FOSS will continue.
- kragen 5y agoNot if publishing FOSS with bad configuration defaults makes you the defendant in a multi-million-dollar class-action privacy-invasion lawsuit.
- neolog 5y agoIt won't. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
- kragen 5y agoI just answered this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971504