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Hell if they just build a playground off in the woods on their own private land but don’t take reasonable steps to prevent kids from accessing or using it then they will have their license revoked.

Sure, but if you want to extend the analogy that far, then the devs are just posting free plans online on how to build a playground. It’s the instance owners who physically build the “playground” and are liable.

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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Again, that does not matter. If an engineer published those plans online and you built it and your kid died they would have their license revoked.

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- CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s no equivalent to a licensed civil engineer in programming.The proper analogy is just anyone putting up those plans.
  
  Why do you keep adding new parameters to these analogies? It’s such a simple concept but you are determined to prove your opinion, that the devs should acquiesce to your point of view, no matter what.
  
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  - masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    There’s no equivalent to a licensed civil engineer in programming.
    
    It’s literally called a software engineer in most jurisdictions that aren’t America where anyone is allowed to call themselves that. And software engineers also have to take engineering ethics, both courses in university as well as in their final professional exams if they want to call themselves engineers.
    
    Why do you keep adding new parameters to these analogies? It’s such a simple concept but you are determined to prove your opinion, that the devs should acquiesce to your point of view, no matter what.
    
    You’re the one who added the “posted online” parameter. I responded and pointed out that it doesn’t matter to the analogy.
    
    If you put something dangerous into the world, mark it “ready to use”, and encourage people to use it, and that results in them getting hurt or hurting others, then that is a bad thing and you have an obligation to fix it or warn people.
    
    It’s such a simple concept but you are determined to prove your opinion, that the devs should acquiesce to your point of view, no matter what.
    
    You’re right about it being a simple concept, I don’ understand where you think I’m demanding anyone do anything. The devs have already acquiesced after the community overwhelmingly dumped on their response. My only point has been that it’s not entitled to expect a developer to put a warning on software once they’ve been alerted that it’s dangerous.
    
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