Lucas Lasota
Lucas Lasota  ·  2 weeks ago
Excellent article from @pluralistic on @fsfe take on #Apple under the #DMA

FSFE’s brief makes a series of legal arguments, rebutting Apple’s self-serving theories about what the DMA really means. FSFE shoots down Apple’s tired argument that copyrights and patents override any interoperability requirements. U.S. courts have been inconsistent on this issue, but we’re hopeful that the Court of Justice of the E.U. will reject the “intellectual property trump card.”

Even more importantly, FSFE makes moral and technical arguments about the importance of safeguarding the technological self-determination of users by letting them choose free software, and about why this is as safe – or safer – than giving Apple a veto over its customers’ software choices.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/eu-apple-let-users-choose-their-software-apple-nah

Dark Sage Torunka :verified:
Dark Sage Torunka :verified:  ·  2 weeks ago
@llas @pluralistic @fsfe This particular gem in the FSFE draft is funny:

>Profit-making motive is irrelevant. Even if an organisation, for profit or not, does not charge for the asset, or derive any monetary value from it, the activity of operating it can be still economic.

This is basically copyright-brain "use of the work is inherently commercial" logic turned on its head to stop the flood of copyright nonsense, and I love it.