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France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

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Re: France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

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What if I'm Mikrotik, a tiny company in Eastern Europe, and I sell a switch to mighty Google that causes google.com to go down. Am I liable for Google's losses? What about Google's users losses?

It's the same question as "What if I'm Sun Orchard Apples and I accidentally sell a rotten one to Elon Musk and he eats it and dies?"

You become responsible for billions of lost wealth and go bankrupt? It sounds like the lesson here is to never sell anything to anyone bigger than you.

Re: France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

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> this is definitely untrue > Obviously, everyone still use Office because, well, there is no alternative to Office So it is, indeed, true. Can you clarify what your point is, exactly? (Also: there is an alternative to MS Office, which is LibreOffice. It works ok. It's not as powerful, maybe (maybe!) but it's fine.) > Do you realise how funny it is to see you complain that you can't see the car companies in a data ba…

Why is it even relevant what car was involved in an accident?

In this context, maybe it can tell you if some brand put a weaker engine in their vehicles and the extra time in overtaking is causing accidents

Or maybe a specific maker has a problem with a specific part shared across models

We're looking for patterns, not rules, extra shared data is generally better

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