Based on a quick glance, the law isn’t a bad idea. FOSS is a boone to the economy, FOSS is the critical core that everything else is built on. The law just needs exemptions that state if the full product (including client, server, the full stack) is free to download, modify, compile, and run, then the project’s exempt.
Even though costs will be passed to the customer, this is still beneficial, as it creates pressure to move away from centralized tech.
Patrick Lamplmair, CTO at the Austria-based cybersecurity firm Tributech, demonstrates the Peter Principle by not understanding what a process controller is, says a simple cut-in/cut-out w/ deadband logic should’ve known better, and probably thinks this could have been prevented by removing the image of a flame from the UI of the controller.
… and suddenly, overnight, claude or whatever will have very detailed, intricate knowledge around Cisco’s hardware, almost like it’s regurgitating internal documentation. Hm.
It’s theater, but it would be fun theater to drag the big companies marketing “super intelligence” into a courtroom, just to go on record stating that they do not have, and can not make, super intelligence.