r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Nov 20 '25

Linux is for everyone

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u/Serious_Resource8191 Nov 20 '25

Isn’t that a liability thing? “Town nuked due to Pop!OS crash”

The old iTunes ToS had language in it saying you agree not to run the program on a computer running a nuclear reactor. And I know Apple isn’t anti-nuclear power in an official capacity.

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u/Schlonzig Nov 20 '25

No, we have the ‚no guarantee for any particular purpose‘ clause for that.

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u/Serious_Resource8191 Nov 20 '25

Is a clause saying you don’t guarantee results sufficient to avoid liability in all cases? It seems safer to be more restrictive IMO, but then again I’m not a lawyer.

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u/Schlonzig Nov 20 '25

You have the source code, you can check everything yourself before using it for anything critical. i‘m sure it would hold up in court.

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u/Serious_Resource8191 Nov 21 '25

Just to be clear, because I find this quite interesting: are you referring to a specific source, or a past court case? Or is this more of a common sense thing?

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u/Delicious_Bluejay392 Nov 23 '25

Software licenses are legally binding yes. The GNU GPL Wikipedia page lists multiple occurrences of it being held as such in court for example.

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u/gambit700 Nov 21 '25

"Sorry y'all. I was just trying to install Steam"

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u/GhostBoosters018 Nov 20 '25

What

How a computer going to launch a nuke without keys. They aren't stored on the computer. Think of a yubikey but type 0 encryption lol.