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- wolnyinternet@szmer.info
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- wolnyinternet@szmer.info
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.
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.
Indeed, Poul-Henning Kamp of bikeshed and BSD fame got a nice little discussion thread started yesterday over on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bsdphk@fosstodon.org/113317528662477344