Consulting The Fourth Sector
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Open Source Is Conceptually Disjoint From Proprietary Software
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Code Is Law, So We Must Have Open Access
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CRA Compliance – Engaging Standards Bodies
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The Commission MUST Consult The Open Source Community
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The comprehension error behind the CRA issue
Perhaps all the problems we are having with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) arise from a misunderstanding of specialist language used by an academic evolving into an imperfect use of the term “commercial” in the exclusion of open source from the CRA?
Fixing The CRA For Open Source
You're not going to fix Europe's proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) by defining “commercial”. The problem is not a lack of clarity in the term; it is the act of triggering applicability of the regulations on an attribute of the work rather than on the act of deploying it in commerce.
Exempting Open Source From SEPs
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Reactions to the Cyber Resilience Act
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Getting Back to a Social Frame
While the Free Software/Open Source movement is based on an essential and timeless concept — that users of software should be self-sovereign in that software — the linguistic frame in which it was positioned long ago continues to have some unfortunate consequences that ironically distract from the very goals the frame sought to achieve.
