> Changing liability laws on the other hand is a simple solution. But at what price? It would kill off open source completely, as far as I can see, in the jurisdiction(s) in question. (How many open source projects could afford to defend a liability suit even if they (a) wanted to and (b) had a won case?)
Of course, if you don't mind that, go right ahead. You don't say where you are, but looking over your message I see reason to thin it's the USA, and I long ago wrote off the USA as a place to write code. I think it could be a very good thing for the USA to try such laws; it would give us hard data about what their effect is, rather than the speculation (however well-informed) that's all we have to go on now - and it quite likely would have the pleasant side effect of pushing most open source projects out into the free (or at least freer) world. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
