John O Connell's Blog » EC http://cloudbooks.org/wp CloudBooks :: The Cloud and Netbooks Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Software liability law could divide open source : News : Software – ZDNet Asia http://cloudbooks.org/wp/software-liability-law-zdnet-asia/ http://cloudbooks.org/wp/software-liability-law-zdnet-asia/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:16:50 +0000 corkie http://cloudbooks.org/wp/?p=166 By Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 07:14 PM

The world of open source development could be divided if the European Commission EC succeeds in passing a law extending consumer protection rules to software, according to experts.

The EC proposes software companies be held liable in the European Union EU for the security and efficacy of their products.

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