Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.

The Linux Foundation has to abide by these rules. Mozilla has to abide by these rules. Me and Linus, as individuals working for them, don't have to abide by the rules...

When the news of the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) first emerged, open source software developers and companies were worried sick . As the Python Software Foundation (PSF) executive director Deb Nicholson said at the time, "Under the current language, the PSF could potentially be financially liable for any product that includes Python code, while never having received any monetary

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