While they are at it, the EU should also correct another sh*tty law: The Digital 'Resilience' Act (or whatever it was) that holds the Open Source developers responsible for unlimited fines for security issues in their projects.

The Open Source community fought it, and thought that it won a concession, but it really was not a concession: The Eu commission will 'interpret' the law. So it will be interpreted politically - or worse, lobby-driven - with every other Eu commission that takes office.

The law does not allow you to make any kind of income from your open source project in ANY way, and basically forces you to be free labor for megacorps. Charging for support? Responsible for fines that can go up to millions of Euros. Charging for 'downloads'. Same. Licenses? Same.

It looks like this was another law pushed by Eu big software lobbies: Cripple any small player that may be a competitor by building a moat against small players and those pesky Open Source startups that may challenge your online service, but still keep Open Source developers as the free labor for your company's infrastructure.

The tech legislation landscape in the Eu has been co-opted by Eu megacorps. Like I said in another comment, we arent in the early days of the Pirate Party anymore. Now career politicians and sold-out lobbyists make laws to protect megacorps. Therefore Im against any new tech legislation from the Eu, despite having been an early Pirate Party advocate back when even using the word 'pirate' put you in legal trouble.

Big players don't want this either, we rely on open source software and frequently contribute back

This is just another dumb EU reg that hurts everyone