"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."
"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
Then the little prince remembered something else, repeated far and wide and IN ALL CAPS so that all would see and remember, and he said to the fox, "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."
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But yeah, it's an ongoing discussion in the broader FOSS world. There aren't any central thought leaders anymore either, it's a very distributed discussion. As far as I recall reading anything of responsibility in, say, GNU's guiding philosophy, the only responsibility to users is to not force them into proprietary software and avoid pointing in that direction for solutions. Development and maintenance is typically voluntary, which naturally limits other responsibilities (Petit Prince notwithstanding), though it can also be supported by external "gifts" (their word for money). These days a lot of people only care about legal responsibility, and it can be a shock to some when they discover either as a user or an author/maintainer how little that is. I harbor a feeling that the newer generation of devs has come up without thinking much on why open source at all, it's just so common and a default in many cases. The prior gens, even if they disagreed with e.g. the GPL's viral nature, typically at least knew about and broadly agreed with GNU's 4 freedoms as one possible reason for doing FOSS in the first place. Though I think these thoughts are getting further off topic from the specific instance at play here, which in any case is full of older gen devs.