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>>ahuber+(OP)
Good that the backtracked on a lot of the CRAp (which would have meant the end of OSS in Europe, talk about destroying the world with the wrong swift movement of a pen!) BUT I'm still angry:

1. This adds barriers to sell OSS software, which helps solidify existing markets and prevents new competitors from stepping up

2. This won't change anything except forcing projects to waste money in legal BS, when the responsibility should be uniquely on the commercial entities USING and providing a service (and therefore making money) with the OSS software

3. This is only the first step, I'm sure they'll keep adding rules

4. I'm thinking they may have been heavy handed in the first draft just so that people would think at the end "oh, phew! the regulators didn't kill ALL OSS software in Europe, great!" without thinking why do we need this regulation or how it improves ANYTHING

Will it actually improve security? I don't think so.

If someone is paying for commercial support they likely already have security updates and, once vulnerabilities are known by the maintainers, the news spread.

The security problem with OSS is not that things are not communicated promptly, but that it's hard to make money with OSS so there is no staff working on security.

This would have not saved us from eg. OpenSSL vulnerabilities and it will be even harder to $NextOSSOrg to start charging for their product and improve their security.

>>joketh+Zc
"which helps solidify existing markets and prevents new competitors from stepping up"

So exactly like any other regulation.

>>wolves+Ui
I like the author's analogy and I'm pretty sure this country has regulations around selling food, but there isn't much of market consolidation. People open and own small restaurants and it's not only chains and franchises all around. People even start new banks and get licenses and the product is quite good. And there are things that are more regulated than opening a bank. I suspect that the CRA is not on a level of operating a bank and somewhat more lax than operating a restaurant.