Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem [LWN.net]

Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

Posted Dec 12, 2023 8:05 UTC (Tue) by rgb (guest, #57129)
Parent article: Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

There are few things that make me more sad than this sh*t. Being an open source contributor is already hard to justify to begin with. Let alone being a maintainer. I am so sick of these godawful laws that claim to protect the little man when, in reality, they only serve the established corporate overlords. Even in the best cases, they only swamp everyone with legalese they have to blindly swallow if they want to accomplish anything else in their lives beyond reading and comprehending incomprehensible legalese.

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Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

Posted Dec 12, 2023 11:06 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Ha, complaining about this in a similar vein on another story: https://lwn.net/Articles/953665/

There are big lumbering "bullshit jobs" machines dedicated to creating inefficiencies, through laws and regulations that are left as vague as possible, so can profit from them with consultancy work to interpret and advise on said vague regulations, and from the outsourcing the army of bureacracy needed to operate the solution the consulants advise is required by law (though you will never find that requirement detailed precisely in the law).

Such inefficiencies hurt small businesses more than larger. Society is pushed ever more to a monotone of mid and large corporates running everything.