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minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoDoes the law demand unsigned software?
minus-squarecabbage@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoGoogle is clearly trying to find a loophole here. Their loophole clearly sucks. In all likelihood it’ll end up in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union. And in all likelihood Google will lose again. The Court of Justice generally seems unimpressed by American lobbyists, so the strategy of finding a dumb loophole is probably doomed to fail.
Does the law demand unsigned software?
Google is clearly trying to find a loophole here. Their loophole clearly sucks.
In all likelihood it’ll end up in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union. And in all likelihood Google will lose again.
The Court of Justice generally seems unimpressed by American lobbyists, so the strategy of finding a dumb loophole is probably doomed to fail.