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Good points. But the reason why software being sold should have a higher standard of liability is because in the case of open source software, that's generally just posted on some website and anyone can download it, modify it, and run it on any platform. The authors don't have any control over what anyone does with it, and never received any money for it in exchange for their liability. With many open source projects, there's a feeling that it was created for the author to use themselves and anyone else being able to see the source and possibly get some benefit from it is just a bonus.

With a bunch of random people just making a bridge that collapses, then unless it's on their own property, they know that other people will use it and expect it to not collapse and so liability is justified there. (If it's on their own property, then morally there shouldn't be any liability unless they invited someone to use it, but legally is another matter.)

If this was ANY product other than software, there wouldn't even be a question of Valve being liable, and that's just disgusting to me.