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Because that makes Kevin a manufacturer and thus subject to liability for a product that he gives away for free, which is a ludicrous proposition. And would le
by x0x0 2y ago
Because that makes Kevin a manufacturer and thus subject to liability for a product that he gives away for free, which is a ludicrous proposition. And would lead anyone rational to ban all UK downloads, because you can't put your personal finances at risk to give someone free software.
- card_zero 2y agoOh right. I had the opposite uncertainty, in that I presumed distributing source code counts as manufacturing with no distinction between the two. So you have to put it through a compiler to make it go, so what, same difference. (And what about bytecode and JIT and other gray areas?)