Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

• ell1e@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=…

  Supply in the course of a commercial activity might be characterised not only by charging a price for a product with digital elements, but also by charging a price for technical support services where this does not serve only the recuperation of actual costs, by an intention to monetise, for instance by providing a software platform through which the manufacturer monetises other services, by requiring as a condition for use the processing of personal data for reasons other than exclusively for improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of the software, or by accepting donations exceeding the costs associated with the design, development and provision of a product with digital elements

  TL;DR, just donations can already be a problem.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    but also by charging a price for technical support

    Which exactly includes systems like RedHat which I already included, but in no way includes voluntary FOSS work for free.

    an intention to monetise

    Again it’s very much about the money.

    just donations can already be a problem, apparently. But IANAL.

    NOPE!!!
    Donations are not a charge.

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    • ell1e@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did you actually read the quote I gave? I’m honestly confused.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        or by accepting donations exceeding the costs associated with the design,

        I’m guessing that’s what you are referring to, this is not relevant to normal donations, but only a use of “donations” to circumvent regulation.
        Show me any FOSS project that has donations exceeding costs of development, it’s basically non existent, only the Linux kernel project itself, which is fair enough to be covered, since the Linux kernel is driven by commercial interests today.

        The claim originally in this line of debate was that small projects could risk this, and no they can’t, only projects that have become commercial are affected.

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