I'm not completely sure of that. The Directive goes automatically local law only if that point is explicitly provided on the Directive itself.
AFAIK that's not the case. This Directive was intended to be an Amendment on local laws and thus failing to implement it simply maintains the previous law running.
Oh, BTW I'm also an European (Spanish, actually). IANAL anyway.
There's a limited amount of things you can do to favor big companies and still being open source.
Please remember: up till now, Linux has grown mainly BECAUSE of that "please release the specs" attitude. Big bucks were going to Linux even with a far-from-complete list of supported hardware. I don't see any need to begin courting them now.
I don't think that way will actually solve much of the problem. A politician would be a "one day employee" of a corporation, getting some million dollars for one working day...
Here in my country (Spain) we say "quien hizo la ley, hizo la trampa", that can be translated (more or less) to: "who does the law, does the cheat".
It's not about 'USA is better' (please remember: America is more than just USA) or 'USA is worse', but it's about 'USA IS DOING IT'
I mean: USA companies are creating and maintaining the Big Firewall, USA companies help to maintain the status quo and help to send people to prison. Also, USA companies had pressed Chinese government to adopt an equivalent of DMCA, only for their own interests.
And now, USA government is arrogant enough to go and legislate WHAT OTHER PEOPLE CAN DO. As a matter of fact, the well-established USA censorship (say: filtering) business will not be involved.
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I'm not completely sure of that. The Directive goes automatically local law only if that point is explicitly provided on the Directive itself.
AFAIK that's not the case. This Directive was intended to be an Amendment on local laws and thus failing to implement it simply maintains the previous law running.
Oh, BTW I'm also an European (Spanish, actually). IANAL anyway.
There's a limited amount of things you can do to favor big companies and still being open source.
Please remember: up till now, Linux has grown mainly BECAUSE of that "please release the specs" attitude. Big bucks were going to Linux even with a far-from-complete list of supported hardware. I don't see any need to begin courting them now.
I don't think that way will actually solve much of the problem. A politician would be a "one day employee" of a corporation, getting some million dollars for one working day...
Here in my country (Spain) we say "quien hizo la ley, hizo la trampa", that can be translated (more or less) to: "who does the law, does the cheat".
It's not about 'USA is better' (please remember: America is more than just USA) or 'USA is worse', but it's about 'USA IS DOING IT' I mean: USA companies are creating and maintaining the Big Firewall, USA companies help to maintain the status quo and help to send people to prison. Also, USA companies had pressed Chinese government to adopt an equivalent of DMCA, only for their own interests. And now, USA government is arrogant enough to go and legislate WHAT OTHER PEOPLE CAN DO. As a matter of fact, the well-established USA censorship (say: filtering) business will not be involved.
And could you explain why you consider yourself proud enough to go and say other people what's right and what's wrong?