Although the implications for independent open source developers in the EU are pretty bad, the real problem here is actually the impact it will have on European

Although the implications for independent open source developers in the EU are pretty bad, the real problem here is actually the impact it will have on European software companies, or in fact, any company that wants to sell software in the EU, even if they are foreign. The EU already suffers from a severe lack of tech industry given its size, and the author just casually brushes off the fact that this will make it much much harder. Most likely it will mean that European software suppliers must pay for very expensive outsourcing of liability protection or liability insurance, yielding higher prices for European customers, and many other companies will simply give up on selling their software in the EU at all. The fact that shipping faulty software is a strict liability crime there means that you can't even solve the problem by using high quality processes and standards, which is presumably the goal, because it literally doesn't matter how much effort you made in good faith to reduce the fault rate. This changes the economic equation for selling software in Europe quite considerably. Hopefully, the UK does not make the same problems when it attempts to draft a similar law, or better, it simply doesn't draft such a law at all. It says a lot about the cultural problems in Europe, and I say that as someone who is born and lives there, that the author simply blows this problem off as only affecting "mega corporations".