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There seems a pattern with legislators in EU trying to fit the digital ("hacker") culture into service provider/customer model. Individuals hacking on projects
by oytis 3y ago
There seems a pattern with legislators in EU trying to fit the digital ("hacker") culture into service provider/customer model. Individuals hacking on projects for fun, bringing up their standalone servers for fun etc. just shouldn't exist in their mind. "Customers" (i.e. non-tech people) demand protection and "service providers" (whoever puts their stuff online) should comply.
Rant over.
Honestly I don't understand why is it not done the same way as for other certification. You only need to have certification once you start selling your product in a regulated industry - e.g. a connected device in this case. If you use any components (hardware or software) it's your responsibility that they are either pre-certified for you (what commercial suppliers would do) or certify them yourself. This would shift responsibility from open source maintainers to where it's due.
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- rad_gruchalski 3y agoBecause this is designed exactly to go after open source. Big European Tech (which is an oxymoron) cannot compete with OSS on levrl-playing field so they lobbied for this to eliminate competition.
- oytis 3y agoWho that would be? The only European big tech company I know is SAP. Not sure what European companies are competing with open source and losing.