3 ms·
I remember when everybody was telling me that the demise of "net neutrality" would force me to pay my ISP for special "packages" to use different sites. Want t
by stametseater 4y ago
I remember when everybody was telling me that the demise of "net neutrality" would force me to pay my ISP for special "packages" to use different sites. Want to use HN? It's blocked unless you pay for the "tech forum package". ...Except that never happened. It turned out that the hysteria was manufactured by American tech corps like Google and Netflix that feared having to renegotiate their peering arrangements.
This sounds like more of the same. The proposed EU law applies to commercial activity, which volunteer FOSS development is not. So now we have commercial interests trying to fan the flames of another hysteria.
- ApolloFortyNine 4y agoMany companies contribute to open source software, would they be responsible if some random user of Linux leaks some data due to a change redhat implemented? Despite that user having signed no contract with them? And last time this came up it seemed widely believe that a donation link is commercial activity.