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ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

Posted Jul 2, 2010 9:30 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud by ballombe
Parent article: ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

because it make developers responsible for the runtime behavior of the software

As if we aren't anyway? The runtime behaviour of the software is the only reason we implemented it in the first place...

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Posted Jul 2, 2010 12:42 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Most free software license include a disclaimer of warranty, so developers are not liable for the runtime behaviour of the software. This is the opposite with the AGPL.

ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

Posted Jul 7, 2010 11:29 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

We may not be *liable* (in the sense that some lawyer can come and take all our worldly possessions) but I think that we are in some sense still *responsible* for bugs in code we write.