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>Third, if and when software liability becomes law and covers open source software included in a product, then companies will finally invest substantially in th
by ctrw 2y ago
>Third, if and when software liability becomes law and covers open source software included in a product, then companies will finally invest substantially in the open source software ecosystem.
This is delusional. Companies will stop releasing open source a software if it cost them money to do it. It is already enough of a fight to just get legal to sign off for ip reasons. If accounting got involved it would simply never happen.
- verdverm 2y agoThe majority of the article is about providing counterpoints to the statements in the first paragraphs > Counterclaim #3: Software liability laws will not necessarily lead to broad corporate investment in the open source software ecosystem.
- NegativeK 2y agoAs mentioned in the article: something like 80% of the code shipped is open source, due to developers doing the reasonable thing and including OSS libraries. Companies can't just walk away from 80%. And if there's liability, rip and replace becomes rip, replace, and still fix issues -- versus just leaving out the rip and replace steps.
- ctrw 2y agoThey can and they will because they did it once moving to open source in the first place.