<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://not.acu.lt/@ignaloidas" class="u-url mention">@<span>ignaloidas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood" class="u-url mention">@<span>lunarood</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> I am concerned with freely and irrevocably distributing turnkey software products, apps, usable or sellable by non-expert outsiders to do or finance harm. </p><p>I just think it would deeply suck to be hurt by someone using work I made and gave to them, with my blessing to do whatever they want with forever, provided they shared the modifications they made to the source code. It keeps happening with increasing regularity and it sucks and we could stop it as a community with a very minor cultural shift.</p><p>Academia does make important breakthroughs, but academics publish proofs of concepts to other academics, around their speciality, typically not broadly applicable products to the general public which hateful morons can immediately and freely exploit and weaponise en masse. I can't think of any counterexamples off the top of my head, and the funding model wouldn't make sense, but if they exist I think they should absolutely consider their products’ risk profile.</p>
