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That statement was based on the old text, correct? The revised law seems to address this in the opinion of experts OSI spoke to: "In particular, “digital artis

That statement was based on the old text, correct? The revised law seems to address this in the opinion of experts OSI spoke to: "In particular, “digital artisans” using Open Source software at small scale – the main concern of Debian – will need guidance from the European Commission. While the experts we have met have all said that using an Open Source software distribution as part of a commercial activity is unlikely to require CE marking of the distribution itself, the interpretation of the key phrase “making available on the market” will need careful clarification."

DCKing 3y ago
> That statement was based on the old text, correct? Yes it has. The updated text was published on December 20th [1], and does a lot to address these concerns. See also Bert Hubert's analysis [2]. The amount of knee jerking in the comments for this law really brings down the quality of discussion and detracts from remaining issues. [1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONSIL:ST_17000_2023_INIT https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CONS... [2]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-f...
- diggan 3y ago
  > The amount of knee jerking in the comments for this law really brings down the quality of discussion and detracts from remaining issues. Sadly, there are topics that sometimes come up on HN that makes people have these knee-jerk reactions. Anything related to EU, unions, Tesla, Israel and more tend to bring out the worse from normally reasonable people. I'm probably guilty of it sometimes too, we're all humans after all.