EU situation should be looked at by everyone
EU situation should be looked at by everyone
Posted Dec 14, 2023 11:58 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: EU situation should be looked at by everyone by khim
Parent article: Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem
> > So if I publish some piece of open source code that then gets used by $COMPANY in their $GADGET the entity that should be liable for any bugs (security or otherwise) is $COMPANY
> Yup. That's the idea that is explicitly and consciously rejected by lawmakers. Please read the article on the Apache's blog.
And I've just realised where this misconception comes from, and why it's "deceiving by failing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".
The EU has no way to make $COMPANY liable, if said company is not based in the EU. The law is pragmatic. So it makes the people who *handle* $GADGET *inside* the EU liable.
Which means they make $COMPANY contractually liable, and if they don't consider $COMPANY trustworthy to honour the contract, they just don't do business with them and these unsafe and unreliable products have no official route into the EU.
Cheers,
Wol