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by layer8 996 days ago
> If anything, it will likely toss more resources to open source by those very same big tech companies, to protect their liabilities

I don’t think that's how it will work. The moment the big company ships an open-source library as part of their commercial software, they will be liable for it (but not the original non-commercial open-source authors, if any). As soon as it's used as part of a commercial product, being open source or not won't matter for the liability.