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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
(www.theregister.com)
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There really are differences, Linux kernel membership could be called based on donations, but they are clearly more than that.
Also you haven't mentioned a single 1 man FOSS project that could be affected, which was the original claim could be even from just being a maintainer, which is bullshit.
We hear these EU warnings over and over again, and they are always wrong.
I continue to believe the risk is real and supported by my links and quotes. You might notice some people in the linked discussions who seem to be thinking it's not entirely baseless. You're free to disagree. I'm not a lawyer anyway.