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> it's possible for legislation to be terrible while conceived entirely in good faith

This is way too fine-tuned to destroy small software segments, open source and private developers included, for the benefit of large companies that will be able to afford the potential fines.

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That has nothing to do with what I mean by good faith - I just mean that the legislation they’ve proposed is the legislation that they want passed.

That’s different from a poison pill amendment, where the intention isn’t to actually implement the policy, just to kill the legislation that you’re attaching it to.

One could be inclined to think that in different circumstances. However large software businesses (especially German) are among the backers of the bloc that governs Germany and controls a significant part of Euparl. So you can easily conclude that they would want it to pass...

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