mastodon 4.7.3Free Software & IT Law | Own views only
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I am happy to see that @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu is listening to the demands of @keepandroidopen@techhub.social by adding a whole section about it in the #DMA FAQ website.
Android became too important to be left under such lock-in.
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/citizens-and-whistleblower-portal/eu-citizens-qa_en
#RouterFreedom is the longest policy/legal project I have been working so far. While the @fsfe@mastodon.social started in Germany way back in 2013, I joined later the party in Feb. 2019 to cover the efforts at EU level after the 2018 reform of EU telecommunications law.
Having Router Freedom confirmed after almost 6 years in Germany is a great achievement, also in a personal level. I am very grateful to a LOT of people helping us with technical, legal, policy and community management advises. The effort paid off!
In special a big shout out to @mxmehl@mastodon.social, @lexelas@mstdn.io and @kirschner@mastodon.social who have been great fellows in this path.
Now we look to a broader picture. #DeviceNeutrality, #DMA, #satellite networks are posing new challenges for #NetNeutrality and the right of end-users to choose their own equipment for internet connection.
Just heard from a high rank officer in the audience of the hearing that @fsfe@mastodon.social intervention (prepared by Dr. Martin Husovec) today at the @Curia@curia.social-network.europa.eu was the most impactful among all the parties! #SoftwareFreedom at the core of the case!
I had the great pleasure and honour to be interviewed by @techlore@social.lol about the challenges faced by #freesoftware (#opensource) projects requesting #interoperability from gatekeepers like #Apple and #Google under the #DMA
If you are in Brussels tomorrow, I will happy to discuss #DMA and #interoperability with you at @fosdem@fosstodon.org. DMA enforcement team at @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu and @datarights@eupolicy.social will be part of the show :)
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/TQS7LM-interoperability-dma-apple-google/
RE: @kirschner@mastodon.social
Encouraging to see people mobilising and demanding #RouterFreedom.
Although the #NetNeutrality regulation in the EU is reaching its 10th anniversary, many member states still do not allow consumers to use their own routers.
There will be a window of opportunity to harmonise #RouterFreedom across the EU, though:
Dream team at @article19@mastodon.world #DMA Symposium! We are discussing how #Google's recent policies restricting #interoperability impacted #aosp
RE: @agger@expressional.social
Super cool experience, thank you so much!
@Tagesspiegel@flipboard.com Background hat @dario@pan.rent und mich eingeladen, eine Zusammenfassung einer Studie zu verfassen, die wir in Zusammenarbeit mit der @fsfe@mastodon.social zur Umsetzung von Interoperabilitätsverpflichtungen und zum Digital Markets Act (#DMA) durchgeführt haben.
Die Studie befasste sich damit, wie #Apple die Rechte konkurrierender Entwickler einschränkt.
During my last hours in Luxembourg I am reflecting yesterday's experience at @Curia@curia.social-network.europa.eu.
Apple's legal team consisted of at least 10 persons. @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu 's DMA enforcement team was also heavily present with at least 8 officers and 4 lawyers.
Everyone extremely well prepared, but the hearing was brutal: 8 hours of intense inquiry and debate.
Even for myself, who knows the DMA almost by heart, there were moments I felt lost in the discussion.
I am very grateful to Martin Husovec who like a true professor guided us during the whole procedure. It was quite a journey!
Remarkable initiative by @wavesblog@eupolicy.social and Isa Stasi to give technologists a channel to talk about #DMA!
Pressing issues related to app stores in environments dominated by #Apple and #Google were discussed in details by @eighthave@social.librem.one and @marcprux@mastodon.social.
Take some minutes to hear it, it's worthy.
Tomorrow I kick-off a challenging and exciting project: my first course for legal aspects related to #OpenHardware (OSH )at University of Halle Wittenberg.
Together with my great colleague Martin Häuer, who has a lot of experience with OSH communities, we will go over these topics:
- Licenses for hardware, software and data
- Patent law and OSH
- Protection of semiconductors (RISC-V case study)
- Liability and OSH
- Interoperability regulation
- OSH and administrative law
- AI and generative OSH design
Jährlich am 3. Mai veröffentlicht die taz Panter Stiftung (@tazgetroete@mastodon.social) eine Sonderbeilage zur Lage der #Pressefreiheit weltweit. In diesem Jahr hatten wir die Ehre, mit der Erstellung eines Berichts über die Bedeutung von #FreeSoftware für die Pressefreiheit beauftragt zu werden.
Wir gingen darauf ein, wie sich die proprietäre Kontrolle über öffentliche Infrastruktur nachteilig auf die Pressefreiheit auswirkt und wie Free Software für Journalist*innen und Whistleblower*innen weltweit entscheidend dazu beigetragen hat, sicher und privat zu kommunizieren, wenn sie autoritären Regimes oder gefährlichen Situationen ausgesetzt sind.
Wir reflektierten, wie das Free-Software-Modell der Eigentumsverhältnisse an Technologie eine dezentrale Governance ermöglicht, die eine zentralisierte Übernahme solcher Infrastruktur verhindert (wie es bei Twitter geschehen ist).
RE: @heiseonline@flipboard.com
Is #RouterFreedom officially dead in USA?
I would love to learn more about this law prohibiting the commercialisation of imported routers in the US.
When we summarise, we learn. Don't generate, summarise!
Sending good vibes from #sfscon. #DeviceNeutrality is more important than ever. Happy to see so many people talking about it.
Of course, also a great opportunity to talk about #interoperability !
https://www.sfscon.it/talks/why-interoperability-is-key-for-software-freedom/
RE: @gvlx@masto.pt
Thanks for spreading the word. #FreeSoftware communities should size the moment to make digital markets fairer.
RE: @fritjof@social.riversouldiers.dk
Thank you so much for the enthusiasm and the whole work at @fosdem@fosstodon.org!
Happy and honoured to attend @nook@social.chaotikum.org this weekend in Lübeck to discuss #FreeSoftware and platform regulation from the perspective of #DMA and #interoperability
This is actually pretty neat to have such important idea recognized by a superior court:
"The Court has now established a concrete legal precedent in Spain that the Freedom to Study is constitutionally necessary in the context of publicly administered software programmes a algorithms, and in accordance with principles inherent to a democratic state."
The attitude of these distros is not productive. They are not seeking counselling in the affected jurisdictions. In Brazil there is already substantial analysis demonstrating how the mentioned laws do not affect GNU/Linux in the way these distros are fearing. The panic causing these geo-blocks is clearly an overkill.
If you care about democracy and human rights, please take some minutes to read this report by @francescabria@mastodon.uno
RE: @parismarx@mastodon.online
This cultural immiseration affects almost everyone nowadays.
Civil society needs to make sure to raise in this new process the shortcomings of regulating interoperability of the Apple experience:
#DMA debates is dominated by industry. It gives me hope to see civil-society being involved at such high level intervention.
https://www.techpolicy.press/civil-society-role-grows-in-eus-dma-case-against-apple/
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk folding bikes rule!
