Gregory's Server@cczona That’s just sad. The reasoning is probably fear that the EU will be left behind in the AI race. FOMO, in political terms.
The EU has already shown itself lacking an understanding of the digital world and its workings, considering recent developments, such as Chat Control and the call for encryption back doors. The situation is probably only going to get worse considering the political climate in Europe right now.
Everyone responsible seems to have tunnel vision, only being able to focus on one thing at the cost of everything else, such as internet infrastructure security and the respect for the privacy of both its citizens and companies.
Has open source fallen out of favor with recent reports of backdoor attempts and supply chain issues with most package management systems such as npm, pypi etc?
If so they are completely missing the point that most commercial closed source projects are built upon the same package management systems and suffer from the same supply chain issues, only it’s much harder to vet closed source software because of its nature.