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?
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?
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.
Elborate?
Isn’t FOSS excluded from CRA. Why should it be fucked?
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.