laszlovl

Although it will only be fully in force as of March 6th, this sounds like an obvious violation of the European Union's new Digital Markets Act to me.

Article 6.12 states: "The gatekeeper shall apply fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory general conditions of access for business users to its software application stores", whereas nothing about their decision is fair & reasonable.

Furthermore: "For that purpose, the gatekeeper shall publish general conditions of access, including an alternative dispute settlement mechanism.", while it sounds like no serious appeals procedure was offered.

Now, how to actually enforce this in a procedure that won't take years to complete is a different question..

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  Location: Netherlands
  Remote: OK, but would like to regularly meet the team
  Willing to relocate: No, but happy to regularly fly over
  Technologies: privacy, decentralization, antitrust
  CV: request via email
  Email: username @ fastmail.com

Worked as freelance software engineer for the past 10 years, would now like to work for a company whose primary goal is to provide an alternative for / curb the power of huge monopolists such as Google and Facebook (think: Signal, Matrix/Element, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Purism).

10 years of very broad work experience: backend development, some frontend, devops, security, architecture, scalability, privacy, open source. If I'm not familiar with your stack yet, I'll just learn it before I start.

Email me to schedule a (video) call :)