Software with CE and TÜV stickers... what a time to be alive!
> It is the universal expectation that Linux will fall under the Cyber Resilience Act, even though it is not clear what Linux is exactly, nor who programs it and therefore who should comply with the act, which includes such fun things as mandatory third party audits by government certified companies.
If the EU cannot even figure out how to make it apply the proposal to the most common OS on servers, then it has no business proposing such regulation. All it'll achieve is hand incumbents (e.g. Red Hat and SuSE) more power in market dominance.
Software with CE and TÜV stickers... what a time to be alive!
> It is the universal expectation that Linux will fall under the Cyber Resilience Act, even though it is not clear what Linux is exactly, nor who programs it and therefore who should comply with the act, which includes such fun things as mandatory third party audits by government certified companies.
If the EU cannot even figure out how to make it apply the proposal to the most common OS on servers, then it has no business proposing such regulation. All it'll achieve is hand incumbents (e.g. Red Hat and SuSE) more power in market dominance.