> Therefore, the accusations against Alex threaten to kill the entire open-source software segment. No one will dare to write and publish open-source code, no one will invest in the segment if they could be made responsible for the use of the tool they created by other parties.

This is absolutely not the case. As an open source dev, this does not factor into my decisions at all.

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