For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...
I contacted the EU DMA team a while back. Part of the response:
We have taken note of your concerns and, while we cannot comment on ongoing dialogue with gatekeepers, these considerations will form part of our assessment of the justifications for the verification process provided by Google.
So at least some part of the bureaucracy are at aware of it.
The thing I don’t understand about any of this, is why can’t you comment on ongoing dialogues with the gatekeepers?
I understand the basic tenants of keeping the discussion closed until official statements can be prepared, to prevent the press and the public from going off half cocked. That makes sense for private matters.
This is not private. I can’t understand what is the point of negotiating law for people if they can’t even see the ongoing process?
This is something the EU should really regulate, unfortunately they are busy regulating oat
milkdrink and veggieburgers.the eu is way too busy chewing us boot atm
It’s a banker’s cartel. Nothing more.
Pretty sure the EU was designed to serve the interests of carnists and other capitalists.
I contacted the EU DMA team a while back. Part of the response:
So at least some part of the bureaucracy are at aware of it.
The thing I don’t understand about any of this, is why can’t you comment on ongoing dialogues with the gatekeepers?
I understand the basic tenants of keeping the discussion closed until official statements can be prepared, to prevent the press and the public from going off half cocked. That makes sense for private matters.
This is not private. I can’t understand what is the point of negotiating law for people if they can’t even see the ongoing process?
That’s the copy pasta I got, too!
Same
I’m confused why so many open source developers think that the EU is going to be the foster parents of FOSS communities
There’s a real effort in some EU countries to fund FOSS projects to get out from under US dominated tech.
It’s because they did a thing with USB once
The EU hasn’t even been able to stop Apple from doing this shit.
The EU is actively preventing their own people from leaving the Google ecosystem with the Play Integrity API in their own apps.