EU and You [pdf]

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● EU Radio Equipment Directive, EU Cyber Resilience Act: Sorta product legislation, put requirements on hardware and software
● EU NIS2, EU Cyber Solidarity Act, DORA: Rules on services, continuity, preparedness
● GDPR: Rules on data

● Renewed Product Liability Directive: pay up for broken software

I think that making companies pay up for broken software is a nifty idea. Less code, but better quality, is what we all want, no? I don't care for all the new stuff in IOS 17 and Sonoma, I just mostly wish all the bugs were gone.

I guess that the definition of “bug” needs to be ironed out. Is this an undocumented feature? Or really a bug?

Couldn't tell in the pdf, are there entity size restrictions for the applicability of the law? Like, could this make launching a new software business in the EU even harder? Can you be marked as "important" but also be a 5 person company?

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