Sounds like companies that use open source in their products will be held liable for bugs in the open source they chose to include in their products... and won't be able to pass the liability on to the open source developers.... instead of consumers taking all the risk. I'm of two minds on that, not sure what to think. But I predict lawyers will go after deep pockets. I don't think they will come after open source devs, even if they were paid in donations.
Anyone close to the matter that could share some more insight?
https://developersalliance.org/open-source-liability-is-coming/
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Time to start reading the code one uses?
Not everyone can, but far more people should IMHO. Just being 'open source' doesn't mean anybody actually read it and checked it was good code, didn't have backdoors, etc.
they will go after the money, but probably they will make a security theatre about arresting developers too, nothing beats a climate of fear to create submission
classic cult manipulation tactic to point at an enemy to blame for the harm that is really being caused by the ones doing the pointing
20% VAT on almost all transactions? anyone think about the harm that the EU's tax does to people?
and who wears the blame when they make wrong decisions?