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pjmlptoday at 3:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

Even people selling on the street or doing charity work have to account for liability of their actions.

Lets stop talking about open source as special snowflakes where everything is excused.


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voakbasdatoday at 3:35 PM

And that’s how you prevent bake sales, lemonade stands, and more. You create a barrier to entry that gets raised little by little until only the biggest players can afford the game. Software liability would end all small open source projects.

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esikichtoday at 3:36 PM

The problem is it's literally speech. Selling something isn't speech, you do not have the right to do charity work or run a business. It goes even beyond speech, it's closer to pure math/logic and I feel very uncomfortable about regulating that. I also think it's literally impossible.

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