An erra is to come to an end as the Eu says enough is enough and introduces new rules and hefty fines.
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Let’s go one further and compel Apple, Microsoft, and Google to open source their entire operating systems. :)
I am almost certain there would be two major impacts from that. The first being that operating system development would slow to the pace that the community wishes instead of having big money behind it. And the second is that security updates would come quite a bit faster.
Edit: I figure brand new major features would be slower in coming. But security would be improved.
Open source doesn’t mean open source development. But yes on the bugfixes
The operating system that runs most servers, a lot of them doing web cloud and networking, with high levels of security (developed by security companies) is open source, the *BSD distributions and also Linux.
But I also have doubts if this is the right move.But I also have doubts if this is the right move
Can you share those and the reasoning, please?
What does it mean to “open up” an operating system in this context? Do they mean something like the possibility to intall other OSes on their devices, or that the app stores needs to be more open? I’m guessing it does not mean they have to start open source:ing parts of the OS… or?
Probably to allow proper sideloading of apps, instead of the contrived bullshit they already tried to pull.
What they’ve done can be described as nothing other than malicious non-compliance and the EU has been dragging their feet on enforcement.
We are talking about lawmakers making this demand. They don’t have a fucking clue what the difference is between all these possibilities.
From the last paragraph, it sounds like the intent is to make it easier to switch devices and services, which would be great
Apple opening up would makes to mean toward them more. Still, I’m only going to get a new phone after 2026, after the EU’s battery mandate in force.