The EU Cyber Resilience Act latest text has some pretty good words on open source. These words are to be found in the preamble & "recitals". Contrary to what some people are now claiming, these words on open source do determine what the act means & how judges will read it. These are not just 'non-binding comments': https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-recitals-comments-compiler-judge/
I've updated my blog post on the worries about open source and the EU Cyber Resilience Act to reflect that the agreed upon #CRA text appears to be a lot better for open source and free software. But we still await the final details, when I get those I'll do another writeup.
@aral@0xtdec no you are needlessly leaving up information you know is false. There is enough misinformation already in this world without adding more of it. But apparently that is fine with you.
@aral@0xtdec they worked on it until midnight, I assume they need some time to formalise the results of their negotiations. I don't know when the new stuff becomes public. Meanwhile your misleading post that refers to the September version as the current version is still up, which is not helpful for anyone.
The EU has reached agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act. The situation for open source has changed remarkably compared to earlier versions, it appears in a good way. Before issuing fresh hot takes, please take the time to understand what the (not yet published text) actually says. Even people well versed are still processing things! https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_6168
So tomorrow there are national elections in The Netherlands and I need to acquaint you with two oddities. For one, we take our democracy entirely for granted so we mostly vote in.. garbage bins. Secondly, our ballots are HUGE as they list 28 parties and 1128 candidates (no joke). So we need to make good use of the space in the garbage bin. For this purpose, polling stations are equipped with the STEMBUSSTAMPER, specially designed to tamp down wayward ballots:
I now *truly exist*! If you search for my (still existing) bert_hubert account on the bird site, you won't find it anymore. Checked from various places. I'm told this is a "search shadow ban". I do feel like I've achieved something now...
So I'm still sorta amazed. Europe's telco standards body ETSI allows member companies to vote directly on decisions. Apple weighs in with 21 (!!) separate country operations as members. There are 11 local Samsung entities, 11 Qualcom, 10 Intel and 7 Huawei. Probably all a coincidence. https://www.etsi.org/membership