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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by simion314 on Thursday June 14, 2018 @04:13PM (#17314957)
Possible issues with your ideas:

- false numbers, similar with Tesla PR where they use bad statistics to prove their system is safer

- too general statistics for your situation, say car X is safer then human globally but locally in your region humans are much safer, will you send your children with car X where is probably not safer then average human(including drunks, teens and tired people)

- say car X is super safe, so you allow them to kill some people deliberately because they saved lives, so CEO of X hates people from a specific group(say gun owners, or teachers, or developers) so he decides that on 13 every month 666 people will be sacrificed

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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by TooBrokeToBeg on Thursday June 14, 2018 @05:05PM (#17315347)
The first and third examples are fraud. These have nothing to do with the proposed issue anymore than someone falsifying that a plane can fly (for whatever guidelines a jurisdiction uses to govern that). The third is subtle because it's not 1 in 1000 (randomly) but 1 in N-members of 1000, making it not in 1/1000.
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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by gregknicholson on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:10AM (#17318902)
How can you discover this fraud? If the proprietor says these are horrible unrelated accidents and they promise they're working hard to fix the problem, how can you find out the truth if you can't audit the code?
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