No, open source advocates are not engaged in “special pleading” to try to get open source given an unreasonable artificial market advantage in Europe, as some are alleging. From the very beginning I have heard people claiming that open source advocates are trying to get open source software per se excluded from the scope of regulation by the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Even now it seems people are still hearing this.

Update: This post has graduated to the OSI blog and is also available en Français.

Update: This has now graduated to the OSI Blog.

Update: Graduated to the OSI Blog