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Congrats. You just killed all small consumer hardware companies with 7 years software support. I mean all the EC crap costs alone €30k, then electronic waste ta
by lnsru 3y ago
Congrats. You just killed all small consumer hardware companies with 7 years software support. I mean all the EC crap costs alone €30k, then electronic waste taxes and software support on top. Let the Europeans play with wooden horses then.
- Avamander 3y agoAll you have to do is not force your stuff to become waste. It doesn't mean major updates, but updating e.g. openssl shouldn't be that hard. If you can't guarantee that then why should the EU guarantee a market (and recycling) for your product? It's not fair.
- wiz21c 3y agoIf (for example) Debian can do it, I'm sure Google can. They just have to leave their platforms open. It's not like it's expensive.
- matthewmacleod 3y agoI mean, this is honestly kind of the goal. If you aren’t able to demonstrate that your hardware product isn’t going to burst into flames or damage the environment… maybe it’s better that it’s not for sale?
- josefx 3y agoMaybe they shouldn't release garbage onto the market? I have collected roughly a dozen systems over the years, they all run Debian 12 and with one exception everything works fine. That one exception being a special purpose Vista Ready "GPU" that forced even Vista to run in a compatibility profile for older hardware.
- devjab 3y agoHave you got some examples of this? I don't have a lot of non-big tech hardware, but my raspberry pi model b still receives updates.
- pjc50 3y agoThe EU really needs to learn the idea of small business exemptions from the regulatory burden. It should be possible to sell a few hundred to a few thousand devices without having to deal with regulations aimed at hundreds of millions of devices.
- pjmlp 3y agoThe law is the same for everyone else in the other industries, and the little ones can manage, IT shouldn't be any different. Growing pains learning that quality and support comes with obligations.
- pjc50 3y ago> the little ones can manage There's a chunk of small electronics businesses that don't exist because of the regulatory burden. The cost of compliance is fixed regardless of how large your production run is. CE costs almost prevented Raspberry Pi from existing! (this is why Europe could never compete with aliexpress, either)
- pjmlp 3y agoNo one can compete with Alien Express due to how IP laws work in China, and the production costs, thanks to everyone outsourcing their manufacturing there.
- throwawaymobule 3y agoI thought the CE mark was just something you attested yourself. Are you talking about something else, or am I confusing it for something else?