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ImmutiableTruth
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ImmutiableTruth
3y ago
> Should I soon expect to be defending legal threats from random strangers who ran this code only to gasp find that it deleted their files? Yes. The developers of software have a fiduciary duty to users of their software. The UK court of
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ImmutiableTruth
3y ago
This is already true in the UK. The "open source" developers of Bitcoin Core were personally bankrupt with a multi-billion pound judgement because they refused to alter the protocol to allow Satoshi to recover coins a hacker took
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ImmutiableTruth
3y ago
This makes a lot of sense if you follow judgements internationally. Last year in the UK the creator of BitCoin won a multi-billion pound judgement against usurper "open source" developers who refused to alter the protocol to allow