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Software and product repairs to be subject to product liability in the EU (www.consilium.europa.eu)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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EU brings product liability rules in line with digital age and circular economy

Today [2024-10-10] the Council adopted a directive to update the EU’s civil liability law. The new liability rules better take into account that nowadays many products have digital features and that the economy is becoming increasingly circular.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As long as they dont use it to pass liabilities to foss developers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nobody bears responsibility outside commercial activity because why would they? They’re not selling anything and this is about being liable for stuff you sell, like literally everything else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait what? This looks BIG!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm assuming developers in the big software companies are donning lifejackets due to the amount of palm sweat from the C-suites.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I only develop simple internal tools but I imagine this means either lots of new developer jobs or cutting down the scope of software a lot.

But if you think that’s bad, just imagine how AI companies feel like. Ahahaha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Indeed, Poul-Henning Kamp of bikeshed and BSD fame got a nice little discussion thread started yesterday over on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/113317528662477344