Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune

Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by eropple on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:54AM (#19849302)

> What if the original author dies starving while some rich corporation takes advantage? I mean, really silly arguments when you look back.

The evolution of open source software in the twenty years hence suggests that this particular question is not as silly as you frame it.

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Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by steveeq1 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:15AM (#19849547)

No, open source software has been a regular thing since the 1980's and arguably with 1970's with richard stallman. It was already 20 years old by the time I was explaining it to the lawyer. He was just unable to understand anything that wasn't part of his paradigm.

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Re:Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune by eropple on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:16AM (#19849566)

Being "a regular thing" and being "a thing that enriches companies off the backs of community-minded software developers" are not concepts in conflict.

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