Woke up to find #Sonos has totally destroyed their app on all our phones, the only way to control their products, and left it with no play queue, no playlists, no widget controls, and when contacted for support pretends it's somehow better.
The @EU_Commission has launched a public #policy consultation on the rules defining the European #standards system (aka regulation 1025). The top-line for me is it completely ignores #OpenSource while making both engagement in standardisation and use of standards very hard for open source community members.
Unsurprisingly, the consultation's survey makes it extremely hard to tell them this! I think @osi will be attaching a letter to its input! The deadline is July 25.
Thanks! I checked through those searching for an answer the question of "How much of 'all' software is FOSS or depends on FOSS?", but I could only find one study, not a range of studies - Synopsys - whose full report requires email registration (and it's not a peer-reviewed research paper): https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/open-source-trends-ossra-report.html
@webmink That assumes there was only one suitor. It's conceivable that they used it to increase their valuation with another suitor in a bidding war. Looking at the valuation I'd be surprised if this were a single-party negotiation.
If IBM reverses course and moves the acquired products back to an open source license, I'd expect that the license change was used as leverage in negotiations, either with another suitor, or as the "stick" part of "carrot and stick".
If IBM keep it fauxpen source substantially post-acquisition, I will doubt my current construction.
A small change to the most recent (Parliament-approved) version of the Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA) is the addition of a requirement that software be "openly shared" in order for the European Union to consider it #OpenSource in relation to the CRA.
Looks like the big #OpenSource foundations have got tired of being blocked by the #standards massif amd the @EU_Commission over #CRA standards and are organising their own initiative.
@luis_in_brief@webmink One thing well done about SLSA is that is has levels, and the lower ones are reasonably easy to archive. Thus it easier to convince TPTB to invest "just a little" to start moving in the right direction.
@Sweetshark@webmink I don't have my written analysis handy, and it's been a couple of years, but last I looked it was essentially impossible for solo maintainers (i.e., the median maintainer) to achieve even the lowest level. Which may be in some sense accurate, but isn't very useful.
With excellent timing given the upcoming request for #standards for #CRA compliance and the forthcoming review of regulation 1025 and standards #policy, CJEU has ruled that "harmonised standards form part of EU law" and cannot be kept secret as there is always a public interest in their disclosure. Time for some modernisation.
The group of FOSS community members who have been engaging the legislators over the CRA are hosting a #DevRoom at #FOSDEM. It is an experiment in bringing legislators and community members together to truly hear each other in four two-hour workshops.
@hedders@webmink Ryanair is well known for having a v good & humorous social media footprint and to be v adept at getting people talking about it, which is all free (there's no such thing as bad) publicity.