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Free Software at Risk Under Lemon law

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the officialism-and-its-discontents dept.

mpawlo writes: "Newsforge published a piece I wrote on a lemon law for software. That is - what would happen if shrinkwrap limitation of liability clauses would be banned? I think Microsoft and the GNU Project would both suffer."

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  1. Lemonaid Law for GNU/Linux GPL by 3seas · · Score: 1, Troll

    there can be no liability in something that is open to inspection and fixing.

    Perhaps the real problem is in making software creation and modifying easier, so that more can participate.