The thing is, the answers for this are all here and old. I'm just kind of waiting for people to figure it out. If you're creating cool stuff and giving it away

The thing is, the answers for this are all here and old. I'm just kind of waiting for people to figure it out. If you're creating cool stuff and giving it away, great! No obligation. If, however, you're creating a paid product or service -- there already exists a ton of law and precedent and ideas about obligations. We just need to remember these and start using them again. These ideas and law generally point to: If you put a product out there, and make claims about what it can and cannot do (either explicitly or implicitly) then you must be held responsible for the harm if people reasonably rely on it and you screw up. That's it. That's the entirety of it. FOSS is one of your inputs, could be seen as something like gasoline or trucks or whatever. It's your job as a company to handle those safely and make sure they don't goop out and cause harm, and if you don't get this right, you should be sued. Edit -- and of course, sometimes the companies are too slow to make this happen and so we need regulation. We perhaps need an EPA or FDA for software.