Cyber Resilience Act Was Written Without Consulting Those Who Know About Open Source: Mike Dolan

As the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) makes its way through the legislative process, there is a growing apprehension about the way the proposed regulation inadvertently puts a major burden on developers of open source software. “What is surprising about the CRA is that none of the people who know about open source were consulted in the process. So a software regulation was developed without input from the people in the European Union who could have shaped this into something more impactful,” says Mike Dolan, SVP and GM of Projects at the Linux Foundation.

In this episode recorded at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao, Spain, Dolan talks about the Act, why the open source community is concerned about it and what the Linux Foundation is doing to fix it.