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Sure it is different: - not a business - not on a street where people bump into it - doesn't sell physical goods, doesn't know beforehand the number of custo

• pjmlp 3y ago
  Nothing of that is specific to FOSS, - Everyone is liable by their actions on the eyes of the law, regardless of what they are doing is a business, that is why civil insurance is a thing in many countries - Not everything that people do happens on the street - Handling with physical goods doesn't mean one knwos before hand the number of customers, and as for impact, it depends on how wrong it happens to go Maybe liability is finally a way to get people to pay for open source, instead of feeling entitled with stuff they leech on (including big corps).
  • Kinrany 3y ago
    > Handling with physical goods doesn't mean one knwos before hand the number of customers Sure it does? You can resell them, but if you produce X items, there'll be X items. You can't be sued into oblivion after producing one and then learning that it was used by a billion people and 100 of them got cancer.