Comment on Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 5 days agoUmm I think it is Google who are trying to kill access to FOSS. How can you blame the EU for that ?
Google aren’t seriously trying to blame someone else for their own choices now are they ?
droopy4096@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
EU regulation demanding locked phones and virtually prohibiting jail-brraking etc.
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 3 days ago
Can you point me to this regulation ? First I’ve heard of it.
droopy4096@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
one of the references
blazetrends.com/eu-mandates-android-bootloader-lo…
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 2 days ago
Yes unfortunately that’s not true. Several reddit threads have suggested it is chatGPT fantasy, but regardless of the source, here is:
The actual regs in question eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/2024-12-28
Ycombinator analysing it (and saying it’s not an issue) news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939
Xiaomi saying it’s fine (their article was apparently the source of the misinfo) xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootload…
GrapheneOS saying it’s not an issue grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114981731913328733 xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/…/1951434556957138962 and discuss.grapheneos.org/d/…/10
Less reliable sources reporting on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPFj9EP7YE biggo.com/…/202508021532_EU_Radio_Equipment_Direc… forum.sailfishos.org/t/…/10