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Re:The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how... by Scandiravian on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:03PM (#35012207)
How much are you willing to bet on that? I'm happy to put down $1000 that this will not happen

Germany has for instance transitioned to using significantly more open-source software in the governmental institutions, as has many other EU member states

They would not support this proposal if it would result in an expensive reversal of these efforts

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Re:The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how... by EGreg on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:30PM (#35012617)
Governments having standards for themselves and their contractors is just fine: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Imposing gatekeepers on the rest of the public with penalties even in private use cases is not.

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Re:The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how... by Scandiravian on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:40PM (#35015414)
That's your personal opinion and you're of course welcome to that, though I'm curios why you take such an offence to other regions with a different political situation, cultural history, and most importantly security concerns, implementing laws that you're not subjected to.

Could you expand on that?

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Re:The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how... by EGreg on Sunday March 05, 2023 @08:04AM (#35029272)
Simple: this law will affect me as a software developer. Any software “made available” in Europe can be subject to this, just like with GDPR. And most open source software is designed to be “made available” anywhere!

This is the first time the developers of such free software can be hit with massive fines.

And frankly, even if that wasn’t the case, I care about human beings elsewhere.

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