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

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • ell1e@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I will stop discussing since suddenly this is about “normal” and “abnormal” donations, and I don’t think we’re having a clear-headed debate here. Donations can apparently trigger the EU CRA, is all that I said.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There really are differences, Linux kernel membership could be called based on donations, but they are clearly more than that.
      Also you haven’t mentioned a single 1 man FOSS project that could be affected, which was the original claim.

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      • ell1e@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I continue to believe the risk is real and that it’s documented on the issue I initially linked, as well as the quote I gave above. You’re free to disagree.

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