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I don't think your analogy holds up. Take the iPhone. Its a lot more than a Linux system repository. Its hardware. Its software. And it's also regulated

I don't think your analogy holds up. Take the iPhone. Its a lot more than a Linux system repository. Its hardware. Its software. And it's also regulated things, like health records, payments, radio emissions, and a host of other things. So you see, its nothing like a repository. Now, if EU said, "Hey Linux Repositories, you have to let these other parties include their code in your repository", well, that might be a better analogy.

wkat4242 3y ago
> So you see, its nothing like a repository. Now, if EU said, "Hey Linux Repositories, you have to let these other parties include their code in your repository", well, that might be a better analogy. No it's more akin to allowing the user to add other repositories. Which every Linux distro already allows.
SenAnder 3y ago
It would be a wildly incorrect analogy. The EU only wants Apple to allow sideloading, not to accept any code in their app store. And I fail to see the relevance that the iPhone "is a lot more". A linux system is also hardware, software, it has WiFi drivers producing radio emissions, it can and does store health records and payments, and performs far more regulated things, like nuclear simulations for energy and medicine [1]. How is this an argument in favor of corporate-locked devices? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transport_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transpo...