BSA Lashes Out At Mandatory Open-Source Licensing

Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: The American Enterprise Software program Alliance (BSA) doesn’t think about obligatory open-source licensing to be an applicable indicator of sovereignty. That is among the many “pointed messages” they despatched to the French authorities session (closed) at the moment. “What protects Europe is the flexibility to control, audit, and mitigate threat, not the place an organization information its company papers,” stated Thomas Boue of BSA. “Standards of this sort elevate prices, cut back entry to best-in-class safety options, and threat conflicting with the EU’s worldwide commerce commitments.”