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Bad News for Open Source: EU Committee Approves the Cyber Resilience Act - FOSS Force (fossforce.com)

submitted 1 year ago by serenitynot@kbin.social to c/opensource@kbin.social

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A number of open-source organizations say that if this act becomes law, it will do damage to open-source, both in Europe and globally.

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[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great. So what, will they just be able to directly debit our bank accounts for the $15 million fine when we're found to violate their stupid law? Or will every open source developer will be barred from taking a vacation in the EU lest interpol nabs them for breaking this stupid law? What is their enforcement mechanism?

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

No, but Europeans contribute to open source, too, and if they actually go through with this it's going to fuck up a lot of projects.