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by 21 3321 days ago
It doesn't quite work like that.

If I give away "free lemonade", but people get sick because I've made it in dirty conditions, I will not get away just because it's free.

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Maybe...

What's your alternative? Are you suggesting we _do_ fine all the OpenSSL contributors? Or that we do not hold anyone except end users responsible for software/hardware security?

I'm not sure metaphors or comparisons between software and lemonade are entirely helpful - although they do push the discussion along, which is at least interesting... (So if I didn't _make_ the lemonade, but published my "4 lemons pulped, 1/2 a cup of sugar, and 2 teaspoons of rat poison" lemonade recipe on github - then you made it and got sick... Who's in the firing line then? What if the README says "this recipe is satire"?)