Cyber resilience act

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:30:18 CET frances.tait wrote:
> Hi Paul,

Hello Frances,

> We’re planning a brief news item in our January Newsletter to alert people
> to what’s coming down the line on this. We don’t want to take a position,
> but want folk to know about it so they can prepare, and we’re gathering
> links so they can inform themselves.. We wondered if KDE had thought about
> it at all or have something to add.
> 
> Here’s a link in case you hadn’t heard about it.
> 
> https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230717IPR03029/cyber-res
> ilience-act-meps-back-plan-to-boost-digital-products-security Cyber
> Resilience Act: MEPs back plan to boost digital products security | News |
> European Parliament europarl.europa.eu


Yes: KDE is cosignatory of the letter written by the Eclipse Foundation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QM2m3OxMOI_WXM9JHQs2kvg0N8jcWLPHH2N5d8-nPcs

And we agree that the CRA, as drafted

1. would reduce the number of OSS projects available to European SMEs giving 
more power to large corporations; 

2. wouled jeopardize the fragile equilibrium that benefits SMEs contributing to 
European innovations;  

3. by barring FLOSS projects from the market, would probably have the opposite 
effect from that intended and would not improve the security of products 
available to consumers.

https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/cra-should-support-open-practices-open-source-and-development-european-open

I hope that helps. Need more details?

Cheers

Paul

P.S.: Belated Happy New Year!
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