Chris Siebenmann on Nostr: Sometimes I wonder how long open source can survive and what will come after it. Open ...
Sometimes I wonder how long open source can survive and what will come after it. Open source critically relies on the absence of liability for open source programmers, which is under attack from multiple directions. It seems inevitable that increasing amounts of liability will start being imposed on people whether we like it or not, and then releasing software will get much more dangerous.
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