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> The EU wants to protect me, an EU customer, from vendors who sell software or software support contract but don't take cybersecurity seriously No, the EU wan
by zugi 3y ago
> The EU wants to protect me, an EU customer, from vendors who sell software or software support contract but don't take cybersecurity seriously
No, the EU wants to make it illegal for you to buy what you want and instead force you to buy what they want you to have, or buy nothing.
Never mind the clear adverse affects of this law on small developers, who will find it difficult and expensive to navigate the new rules. This law will be a boon to big, expensive software providers who can dedicate whole departments to bureaucratic compliance.
- uxp8u61q 3y ago"The EU" is people I have voted for.
- jokethrowaway 3y agoThere are way too many layers between you and the decision makers. It's a straight up oligarchy. People don't feel like the governments of their own countries are representing them, let alone ANOTHER super government organisation. Most people don't even know the names of the EU representatives of their countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_legitimacy_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_legitimacy_of_the_E... You can see proof of that in the increasingly lower number of people who even bother to vote.
- uxp8u61q 3y agoI'm well aware of the EU's problems. But there's still a measure of democracy. > Most people don't even know the names of the EU representatives of their countries. Most people don't know the names of their government's ministers either.