Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

To make it more relevant, can you provide an example of a law which is shifting the responsibility of corporations/profit seeking entities to unengaged parties with no skin in the game?

My point is that the hobbyist developers aren't exactly begging the profit-makers to make profit specifically off of their code. The hobbyists mostly couldn't care less about users of their code who in most cases don't even bother contributing back, ever. I'd love to see an example of _this_, because this is the core of the FUD arising from the newest legislative "innovation" attempt in the EU. Shifting the blame for mishaps in commercial product to someone who is not in the profit chain of suppliers to make that product possible. Any example of that?

Being in the chain "by random chance" without any profit or even any engagement at all IMHO will always mean the shift-blaming attempts will turn out unsuccessful. The judicial power would have to get hijacked by the profit seeking entities ~completely for this to happen - and when that happens, we've got bigger problems, than a random FOSS contributor getting blamed for something they had no influence over.