On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 10:37, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > Correct. And I agree with that effect: > > same here. > > > The *one* negative impact I can see of this legislation is impact on small > > integrators that were used to being able to go to a > > client company, install a bunch of Ubuntu Desktop workstations, set up a > > Ubuntu Server for SMB and also to serve the website > > of the company, take one-time fee for their work and be gone. Now it would > > have to be made clear - who will be maintaining those > > machines over time, ensuring they are patched with security updates in > > time, upgraded to new OS releases when old ones are no > > longer supported and so on. > > I don't see this a negative impact because this will in the long > term hopefully prevent the effect which is similar to a small > freelancer setting up a kitchen machine which will blow up > after some time. And noone wants that, whether it's been a small > or big company responsible for the exploding kitchen. And people > buying kitchen machines have understood they want safe machinery > in kitchens...
Just to be clear: I also do agree with the main intention of the proposal, what I do not like is that the current draft wording might backfire on us. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer https://perezmeyer.com.ar/
