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Fucking hell what a toxic, ad-hominem, reply!

(although the tariffs have effectively amounted to that without actually saying it)

Especially considering we're saying the same thing.

Politics really destroys the logical thinking part in many people's brains.

Let me rephrase: in the system that exists, today, the argument "it's consumers that end up paying" works the same for the tarrifs as for sales tax?

How does that stinky stupid fucking law work with fediverse? Number of known accounts on the particular instance?

How does that fucking shitty law work with nostr, where there is no concept of accounts nor users?

EU is key enabler too, by promising material support to Ukraine and not delivering. By purchasing fuels from RU, and thereby financing both parties in a war.

It isn't, the license you publish your code under has no relation to whether or not the regulation applies.

For example I develop a small opensource (GPL) application, for which I do paid support. Because of the paid support, it's interpreted as a commercial activity. Without the paid support, I can't spend time on the project. I used to see it as a way to have the large users subsidise the project for all. Turns out it's a huge liability instead.

So I'll have to abandon the project when the law comes into effect. It'll be easier to rewrite it closed source as an employee for those companies, for they do have a legal department.

FOSS is fucked either way in EU starting end 2027 because of CRA.

EU, the entity that couldn't make a functioning TODO app given a couple million EUR budget, is regulatory killing computing, software and digital communications.

I don't think that's how the legal minded people think.

They'll just go after the developers, force the program abandoned and illegal.

if it ran all the programs I use

Got ya fam: don't use the programs that don't run on linux. UR WELCOME

They're the best, they're the worst. Like cuddling a hedgehog.

Don't fret, you've got decades more to not figure yourself out!