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>>diyftw+(OP)
Small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs have to deal with liability and permits all the time in other fields, even actual street bazaars for that matter, exception being when there is some "flexibility" between the laws and how they happen to be applied.

>>pjmlp+Cm
> Small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs have to deal with liability and permits all the time in other fields,

In other fields there is a direct relation between number of customers and liability.

But if i offer free software and also offer commercial support for it, and because of that i would be liable to everyone who uses that software, not just to those who pay for commercial support, then there is no relation between number of customers and liability, and liability cannot be really priced-in.

>>zajio1+nB
It can be priced in you just change the minimum price from $0 to how much liability would cost you.

>>charci+sE
The minimum price for the software can't be changed. It's open source. Once it's out you can't undo it. You will have users paying $0 to use it for what amounts to forever.