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Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

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Re: Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

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Post by pjmlp »

Small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs have to deal with liability and permits all the time in other fields, even actual street bazaars for that matter, exception being when there is some "flexibility" between the laws and how they happen to be applied.

Re: Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

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Post by LadyCailin »

gunapologist99 wrote: post #4

It should be obvious to everyone by now that the European Union doesn't actually care about developers or small businesses at all.

I don’t know what this act specifically covers, but if I were a small business that sold (unintentionally) poisonous cookies to my neighbors, I ought very well to be shut down. That applies no matter my revenue stream size (or even if it was zero!) So I don’t find your argument particularly compelling. There is no inherent right to do business, if doing that business is harmful in some way. The E.U. rightly recognizes that consumers in general are more protected that businesses. I much rather this than the capitalist hellhole that the US is turning into.

Re: Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

pjmlp wrote: post #2

Small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs have to deal with liability and permits all the time in other fields, even actual street bazaars for that matter, exception being when there is some "flexibility" between the laws and how they happen to be applied.

I’m curious what the liability and permits being discussed are here. Because the permit required to prevent some Joe Schmoe from selling me a tainted brownie off a street cart feels a little bit different and perhaps difficult to compare to software

Re: Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act

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Post by friend_and_foe »

LadyCailin wrote: post #6
gunapologist99 wrote: post #4

It should be obvious to everyone by now that the European Union doesn't actually care about developers or small businesses at all.

I don’t know what this act specifically covers, but if I were a small business that sold (unintentionally) poisonous cookies to my neighbors, I ought very well to be shut down. That applies no matter my revenue stream size (or even if it was zero!) So I don’t find your argument particularly compelling. There is no inherent right to do business, if doing that business is harmful in some way. The E.U. rightly recognize…

Pretending for a second that I don't outright reject your premise (that there is no inherent right to do business)...

You can't just label everything as "doing business" and then regulate it all. If I make something interesting and give everyone in the world the blueprints so they can make one themselves that's not "doing business".

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