The European Cyber Resilience Act

Posted Sep 20, 2023 12:40 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: The European Cyber Resilience Act by wtarreau
Parent article: The European Cyber Resilience Act

> My concern with this requirement of extra bureaucracy inflicted on developers is that it will further speed up the migration from distributed software to hosted software, and software will further be replaced by centralized services such as google docs and so on, so that there's no vendor anymore and no notification to be done.

This will be the most likely outcome, along with completely gutting F/OSS creation and general purpose computing in the EU.

This will increase software (and thus product) development costs by at least an order of magnitude, and will also effectively create a giant step from purely-as-a-hobby-with-no-obligations to manufacturer-under-the-CRA-with-full-obligations, with no middle ground.