Briar is hard to regulate because of it having no server, hence I was wondering: are they an alternative to whatever the EU is doing with general messaging apps?

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I don’t think that’s how the legal minded people think.

    They’ll just go after the developers, force the program abandoned and illegal.

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    They just won’t comply. These FOSS services never have to worry about the law anyway - there are literal piracy sites, lol

    • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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      30 days ago

      FOSS is fucked either way in EU starting end 2027 because of CRA.

      EU, the entity that couldn’t make a functioning TODO app given a couple million EUR budget, is regulatory killing computing, software and digital communications.

        • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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          30 days ago

          It isn’t, the license you publish your code under has no relation to whether or not the regulation applies.

          For example I develop a small opensource (GPL) application, for which I do paid support. Because of the paid support, it’s interpreted as a commercial activity. Without the paid support, I can’t spend time on the project.

          So when that time comes I’ll have to abandon the project.