Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality
The Act has already disappointed those who hoped platform companies like Apple would respond in good faith rather than what's been called, and now the Free Software Foundation Europe has decided the regulation should be just the beginning of wider reform.
"Safeguarding Free Software alternatives to operating systems, drivers, app stores, browsers and other software is crucial for freedom of choice and a healthy, competitive, democratic, diverse and sustainable digital society," the FSFE website argues."While everybody was talking about the data flow and the end-to-end principle, with the Free Software Foundation Europe, we focused on the hardware part of it, basically, internet devices, routers, and modems," said Lasota.
"Four years ago, we entered into this debate in order to protect the interests of the free and open source community," said Lasota,"because we wanted to make sure that end-users have the possibility to install and uninstall software on their devices, to safeguard software freedom, and also to protect them from lock-in."“Our advocacy does not end with this law because the digital markets act is intended only for very, very large companies.
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