In addition to this general malaise, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is going to have a big, negative impact on all of the EU, especially Germany, and especially the software industry. The CRA itself is insane, requiring, for example, that conforming software phone-home. Which is, of course, the opposite of what we should be pushing for. Note that something similar is probably coming to the US in the next few years.
I learned about this today from Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich's excellent video/tutorial/warning on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmsM5_5QO5A
When you look at open source AI, for example, EU laws are a huge problem: Not only the act you mentioned, but also GDPR, where it is not clear so far how the "right to be informed" or the "right to deletion" can/must conceivably be implemented. (From my interpretation I also don't see how OpenAI can conform to the "right to be informed" without publishing its training data).
I learned about this today from Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich's excellent video/tutorial/warning on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmsM5_5QO5A