Last year, I wrote about the potential for an ongoing case in England to have a chilling effect on the development of Free software:
[Free software developers and fiduciary obligations: is an English Bitcoin a cause for concern?](https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/10/free-software-developers-and-fiduciary-obligations-is-an-english-bitcoin-a-cause-for-concern/)
Today, [@fsfe](https://mastodon.social/@fsfe) has written a blogpost sharing similar concerns:
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240417-01.en.html
I'm genuinely surprised that there has been so little written about this.
Neil Brown /
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2024-04-17 10:00:24
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