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So you’re willfully spreading FUD in hopes someone will enlighten you?





The law is real. What emotions would you suggest are appropriate?

Open Source is exempt, provided you don’t make a profit: https://kevinboone.me/open_source_liability.html

So it applies to anyone who figures out how to monetize open-source contributions. Seems like a major issue to me. Not exactly something that makes Europe a good place for tech.

The US has the reputation that rich competitors will abuse the judicial system to sue you into bankruptcy. Still, a lot of people want to start their tech startup there.



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