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"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
Making the #DigitalMarketsAct developer-friendly 💻
#FreeSoftware plays a key role in effectively enforcing the #DMA. In this post, we explain how #Google and #Apple continue to hinder interoperability, affecting Free Software developers. In particular:
- How alternative Android ROMs suffer from the lack of device-related interoperability information;
- How #Apple's security paternalism has disabled alternative app stores for iOS and iPadOS.
Read the post here 👇️
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
@ondra I'm not so sure about that (but also lack confirmation). The #DMA does not only mandate #DataPortability with other #gatekeepers but for "end users and third parties authorised by an end user, at their request and free of charge" (see Art. 6(9) and (10) DMA).
This sounds very much like an open standard or at least publicly documented #API to me.
#Google and #Apple jointly work on enabling #DataPortability between devices to comply with the EU's #DigitalMarketsAct.
This is great!
Question is: Will this be an open standard that can be used by independent mobile operating systems like @murena's /e/OS, @GrapheneOS, or @LineageOS as well?
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/
December has arrived, and with it, our last newsletter of 2025 🚀
🔸 we took part in the consultation on the Germany Stack,
🔹 exchanged insights at the Article 19 2025 #DMA Enforcement Symposium,
🔸 and gave #REUSE a new home on @Codeberg
Meanwhile, registration for the next edition of #YH4F is opened and we have new #SoftwareFreedom podcast episodes to listen to. 🎧
This is a small personal instance of Bonfire in the Fediverse.
