EU to vote regulation that has a considerable potential to hurt OSS

Re:EU to vote regulation that has a considerable potential t... by mordae on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:23PM (#36740611)

> I find the criteria for inclusion a bit weird: why would any given project should be the object of regulation? The way I see it, they should rather focus on the transaction.

I asked them directly. There is no direct reason whatsoever. They just rushed it and fucked up. Nobody ever thought about FLOSS besides vaguely excluding it in the "noncommercial" way.

There were more landmines in the original draft. Like the requirement for any known-vulnerable device not be put on the market. Well guess what? All those phones and laptops sitting on the shelves are having exploits discovered every month.

Red Hat chimed in; apparently they have potential vulnerabilities on containers they publish sometimes in 15 minutes. Potential. How exactly are they supposed to act?

The legislation just plain sucked and now it's being "fixed" behind closed doors.

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Re:EU to vote regulation that has a considerable potential t... by tremon on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:25PM (#36740625)

I'm pretty sure at least some of the lobbyists who wrote this were aware of the negative effects on FLOSS software.

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Re:EU to vote regulation that has a considerable potential t... by Vuizur on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:40AM (#36748236)

The head of the Eclipse foundation said that they are aware, but that they thought that it would be too expensive for small businesses to get the verification. So the open source devs should do it for free.

Related timestamp: https://youtu.be/AmsM5_5QO5A?t=1528

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