Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

> The charitable interpretation is that it was put together by Americans applying their understanding of their market rules to a completely different context.

Someone corp just mistakenly awarded the FUD-ing contract to its Washington lobbying office, forgetting Europe in in another continent. Had it been awarded to its Brussels office, the drivel would be different and better camouflaged.

That or the whole lobbying effect is targeted Washington-side, see, sir, time for a new commercial war, because the Brussels office already lost the first round.

Or else the corp could not figure how to influence US relays from Brussels using people who understood EU law.

There are lots of interpretations. The only sure thing is that it’s a publish-this-thing-we’ve-written-for-you lobbying run that does now reflect well on the ASF.