"Europe to make it illegal to change the OS on radio devices like smartphones, routers and embedded devices."

I don't know what to say anymore

And of course, source:
https://reddit.com/r/LineageOS/...

I don't see how this would affect smartphones but not laptops

@electrineer That's title from Reddit post, that's why I added the source. It prolly will affect laptops as well, especially with LTE modems IMO. Will see how this ends up

I read a bit and can now see why regulation is needed (software radio). They also plan to take into account impacts to open source software and hardware. Hopefully they end up with a solution that is not poop.

Great news, kill people for using smartphones with illegal os is what I wanted for Christmas.

@vane is death penalty a thing in Poland?

@electrineer nope since 1998

Here is original legal text.
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Article 3
Essential requirements
1. Radio equipment shall be constructed so as to ensure:
[…]
(i) radio equipment supports certain features in order to ensure that software can only be loaded into the radio equipment where the compliance of the combination of the radio equipment and software has been demonstrated.
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 44 specifying which categories or classes of radio equipment are concerned by each of the requirements set out in points (a) to (i) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph.
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It only says that manufacters must built the devices to prevent loading software, which hasn't been shown to comply with the hardware.

@FilipeRamalho And they may specify in another act, which devices are actually affected

So if the software+hardware combination is in compliance manufacters aren't forced to block the software.
The legal status for companies preventing any software on their devices stays the same.

Chinese companies are liking that.
European companies are filing bankruptcy papers.

I can't believe these are the same people who punished Google for enforcing their software on their own platform. Did they not learn from the case of the gdpr that either the end result has to be regulated or experts trusted with regulation?

@RantSomeWhere Manufacturers would be forced to prevent installing unknown software, obviously. Because people still have too much control over the tools they own.

Can't wait for a phone to come out that isn't released in the EU for a reason like this or something

@RantSomeWhere The Trail - Franz Kafka got it right before it happened.
Totalitarianism is more real now then before and it would get worse due to technology improvements.

@joshsg3 Hey! Welcome to devRant!

@ttomovcik thanks, glad to be a part of this

Bit late... Comments closed on 4th of march

Can't the EU just stop trying to destroy people's lives every month with a new proposal recently?

Ok well... Bye my home network, bye my phone, tablet and notebook, bye rasp... wait, raspberry pi does not come with software because it has no non-volatile memory by default :D

WTF EU?! SVK-EXIT & CZE-EXIT incomming

@Hexwell

Is my RaspberryPi now illegal? Also, are WLAN Sticks with Monitor Mode still legal?

@EaZyCode nothing is decided yet

@Nanos lol (the law won't affect receivers, or at least shouldn't)

that's it, I'm leaving the EU

too much bullshit going on rn

@Krokoklemme Krokoxit?

@Krokoklemme It's time we get to mars, getting kinda tired of earth and all it's laws ^^

@Kage exactly

venus > mars though, cloud cities are just way more awesome

@lunorian but it will be more expensive, and with devices like phones the manufacturer makes a much bigger profit by blocking the bootloader completely. Also raspberry pi is now definitely illegal as it doesn't put any limits on the os being ran.

@buscedv I guess so. Not sure about laptops tho, maybe with LTE modems there's gonna be a problem

Guess I'm never moving to Europe