It would also absolutely destroy the EU economy. Developers in the EU would be blocked from PyPi, GitHub, NPM, Stack Overflow and much much more. Pretty much every single commercial software product contains at least one open source package. You wouldn't even be able to use Java or .Net. There's also no way in hell that commercial companies like Oracle or Microsoft will assume any kind of responsibility for errors their code would result in in a customers code base. At least not without massive compensation.
And how about Linux, or Android... or iOS, they contain open source software as well. Could you go after some random kernel developer for a bug that affects Android?
This hasn't been tought through in any way, the ramifications could be enormous.
At some point would be cheaper to just block access from whole Europe than complying with their laws.
The worst part is that a lot of politicians in other countries are just copying the EU tech legislation, instead of trying to produce something better.
Big companies obviously no. But a bootstrapped startup? Probably yes, at least initially.
And here we are not talking about "basic decency" or taxes. The audit requirements by the new EU law are extremely expensive. They assume that every software developer is BigCo. I don't see that the EU is requesting every tabloid article to be fully audited to remove false claims or that each medical decision must be audited. The requirement is disproportional.
The regulatory burden is so disproportionate that only a few large companies can operate following all the regulations and arbitrary rules set by the Europeans unelected bureaucrats. In turn, large companies raise their prices, but it doesn't matter because they are the only game in town left since smaller companies simply can't compete.
So the European consumer ends up paying for all the extra compliance through less competition while the bureaucrats pat themselves on the back and politicians keep getting "big victory" against the "evil foreing tech giants".
> Developers in the EU would be blocked from PyPi, GitHub, NPM, Stack Overflow
Being blocked from PyPi and npm would probably catapult EU software quality ahead of America... and without them hosting it on GitHub to feed into our LLMs to circumvent their IP? Oof we'd be in trouble...
And how about Linux, or Android... or iOS, they contain open source software as well. Could you go after some random kernel developer for a bug that affects Android?
This hasn't been tought through in any way, the ramifications could be enormous.