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   Maarten Aertsen (maarten@techpolicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:17:48 JST Maarten Aertsen

   • mmu_man
   • Felix Reda

   @mmu_man @senficon Reading your responses, I can see you care, a lot. It seems you are scared and/or upset about something the CRA will do. But I still have a hard time understanding what that something is.
   What the CRA notably does *not* do, is advance the status quo with respect to proprietary standards, the right to repair or open hardware. And that’s sad, but it’s also not what they set out to achieve.

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     mmu_man (mmu_man@m.g3l.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:17:48 JST mmu_man

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     • Felix Reda

     @maarten @senficon that's the problem: it puts further burden on us, when we already had to endure 30 years of vendor screwing us up, while not fixing this issue.

     For 30 years we had to "concede", that is, rescind land to the proprietary side, again and again.

     I've recently begun to think doing FLOSS actually gives them more excuse to go even further in destroying consumer rights (à la "see, you can still use our product so don't bother us with publishing specs" after we spent the time to RE).