Re:Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now ho...
by tluyben2 on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:18AM
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Software is very different than making bicycles. Anyone can make an open source project in their attic and promote it. You cannot do that with most (or any) other of those other examples as it takes actual factories etc.
That is the GP example. If I make 1 bike by hand and put that somewhere on the street, and someone takes it and breaks their legs, that is not my fault. Nor should it be. If I sell that 1 bike, that can be another story.
It will kill open source imho as if you, in your underwear in the attic are responsible for some code you write and put on GitHub, you won't write that code anymore because of the risk; but I don't want to find out who is right here.
Responsibilities should befall the person deploying the software. Aka if you write some software and throw in on GitHub, that should not do anything. But if I take that software and put it in my app or backend and takes people's money because of some bug, then I am the one who is responsible. And this is already the case anyway. No changes are needed.
I think we agree though as I think we are talking about the person who writes and deploys/sells the software: they should indeed be responsible and already are.
That is the GP example. If I make 1 bike by hand and put that somewhere on the street, and someone takes it and breaks their legs, that is not my fault. Nor should it be. If I sell that 1 bike, that can be another story.
It will kill open source imho as if you, in your underwear in the attic are responsible for some code you write and put on GitHub, you won't write that code anymore because of the risk; but I don't want to find out who is right here.
Responsibilities should befall the person deploying the software. Aka if you write some software and throw in on GitHub, that should not do anything. But if I take that software and put it in my app or backend and takes people's money because of some bug, then I am the one who is responsible. And this is already the case anyway. No changes are needed.
I think we agree though as I think we are talking about the person who writes and deploys/sells the software: they should indeed be responsible and already are.