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1. sevagh+F6[view] [source] 2023-12-29 18:40:30
>>daniel+(OP)
I find this article and the reactions here confusing. This seems to me like unequivocally a good thing for open-source devs.

Making commercial vendors who rely on open source software liable for bugs is fantastic news, that's how it always should have been. You can't have a commercial company throw their hands up and say "well github.com/cutefuzzypuppy is at fault for writing an open-source npm package we used so harm to our customers is not our fault!"

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2. omnico+98[view] [source] 2023-12-29 18:46:10
>>sevagh+F6
The article is misleading unless you read the whole thing and the reactions are standard knee-jerk ones from HN users that didn't need to read past "EU" to assume the worst possible misinterpretation.
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3. notfed+na[view] [source] 2023-12-29 18:56:21
>>omnico+98
Are we reading the same article? The final paragraph even says:

> My prediction, for what it’s worth, is that open source’s days outside academia and hobbyists are numbered.

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