One of the biggest problems I have with the currently proposed EU laws is that there is no distinction being made between “Free, non-Paid, Open Source” vs. “Commercial Software Products built from Open Source”.

I find the current situation highlights the fact that large corporations build Paid-for products and services to consumers and makes Millions or Billions of $ £ € often without as much as either a) contributing back to open source or the projects from which they borrow and depend on b) or pay for what they use or support it in any financial way.

A large part of the Open Source Model in my view is often confused with “FREE” as in $0, but this is total bullshit. Companies need to understand that reusing a piece of open source software, library or component does not imply it is FREE to you. Companies today DO NOT vet, understand, review or even remotely contribute (in many cases) bug fixes, security fixes, etc, of the component they freely take and use and profit from.