Update: Open source OSes might be saved from being covered depending on the interpretation of EU regulation 2019/1150 2.2.c.

Should i say more?

I think microsoft has won lastly over linux…

  •  F00FC7C8 likes to infodump   ( @f00fc7c8@libranet.de ) 
    4•2 years ago

    @jakob I wouldn’t say “microsoft has won” just yet. Plenty of legal challenges to open-source have occurred and failed in the past, this is a proposed law in one region, and a lot of these community open-source repositories break the law anyway, by distributing clearly patent encumbered software, because it would be very unprofitable to sue them. (Only corporate-sponsored distros like Fedora and Clear Linux really care about complying with FOSS-hostile laws like software patents, mostly because they ARE profitable to sue.)

    Definitely don’t give up on your beliefs just because it seems tough to follow them, there is always something to do. Fight against laws that force centralization like this. Keep developing your software until there’s a direct, credible legal threat, and possibly after if you’re open to civil disobedience.

    •  Jakob :lemmy:   ( @jakob@lemmy.schuerz.at ) OP
      3•2 years ago

      I think the following about #Chatcontroll: It will be realizes, because it’s not against child-abusement. It’s against climate-, and social activists. The near future will fuck us totally. And the mighty know, that we will be fucked. So they want to save them self. And the try is Chatcontroll to kill peoples resistence… Why is think, we are fucked soon?

      • climate change
      • moneysystem will break
      • socialsystem will break
      • energysystem will break
      • garbage all over the world
      • fascists take over in most countries (in case of many people are afraid of their future)

      And the other part is… FOSS is not capitalistic… and capitalistic useable. Our fiatmoneysystem needs to grow, or it will die. So it will eat all of the free world… including FOSS… and die a little later. When everything is destroyed and fucked up.

      It sounds dystopic? Our world, the human world, is a dystopia… I didn’t belief it… but when i look outside… there is no way out, than destroy it all… so many stupid people voting for far rights, climatechange deniers, antivaxxers and conspiracy narrative tellers… We (we as humans) are to slow to change our system. So our system will change us.

  •  Yuu Yin   ( @yuu@group.lt ) 
    3•2 years ago

    Article 6 of the law requires all “software application stores” to:

    • Assess whether each service provided by each software application enables human-to-human communication
    • Verify whether each user is over or under the age of 17
    • Prevent users under 17 from installing such communication software

    It may seem unbelievable that the authors of the law didn’t think about this but it is not that surprising considering this is just one of the many gigantic consequences of this sloppily thought out and written law.

    That law is a big document; would have been helpful if Mullvad’s article directly cited/referenced as for us to verify some of that.