The truth or falsehood of the statement ("DEI is discriminatory") isn't my concern. I could well be in agreement. What I am saying is it's definitely a political opinion, which kinds of contradicts the claim that Xlibre isn't affiliated to a political group, and makes it a less interesting place for me to download (or contribute, for those who are competent).

When I mention "Nazi bar problem", your statements (and mine) illustrate the problem. It is the mention of DEI in the Xlibre About page that ultimately lead you to lecture me on penises and vaginas, topics unrelated to X.org development. The single statement in the About page results in attracting like-minded people, turning a developer project into an anti-DEI project, even if only by a loose association. Like the non-politicised patrons stop going to the "nazi bar" because they don't want to be seen in their company, people not strongly politicised regarding what are essentially US political controversies, won't join to the Xlibre fork. The Xlibre developer lost an opportunity to a great project by just forking and staying quiet about his reasons, just working on a successful fork.

UK was member of the EU or its predecessors the whole time Acorn Computers existed.

I looked into it as I am concerned about the future of the X.org server, and Xlibre is available in the distro I use. I reached the About page, where it tells it's "not at all affiliated with [...] any political activists groups", and then that it's "It's explicitly free of any 'DEI' or similar discriminatory policies".

So it isn't affiliated with a political group, but complains about Big Tech, and bring political opinion about DEI, aka political rants. The project claims to be open to be welcoming, but the mission statement that will, by design, attract or antagonise certain groups. So I left it there, because it's heading to a "Nazi Bar Problem".

What do you mean? Acer consistently ranks above Dell in market share or units sold https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flaptopmedia.com%2Fin%2Fhig... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.accio.com%2Fbusiness... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoolest-gadgets.com%2Fla...

The correct terms are tonne-force (tf), Megagram-force (Mgf) or Megapond (Mp) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

We cannot read people's mind, so we cannot tell if this is about "fear of..." or "stunt to deflect...". However "another step into facsism" is something we can objectively assess as true or false as it is a matter of the facts (whether he walks and quacks) and not intentions.
 

Which prompts to notice his diplomacy skills. He managed to not take the bait and deflect the question while still answering on the keywords he was given, not giving any inconvenient answer, and not making it sound he deflected to the casual listener. That's an art on its own; he's an old dog and knows plenty of tricks.

Thanks. Happy to learn it was regular stupidity rather than evil corporate conspiracies.

Corruption is a matter of opportunities. They mention embezzlement, so I'm thinking kickbacks. The watchdog director has the power to steer his organisation to fine a Big Tech company for many millions (it's not hard to make a case). He could have offered the target companies to cut the fine by 90% if suitable side-effects would happen to a particular bank account. Several big companies have in the past being caught agreeing to similar corruption pacts, say, mining companies in developing countries.

An I want congratulate the slashdot editors on pulling such a clever clickbait.

That's the case of the Clicks keyboard mentioned in the summary. It's a BT keyboard built in a phone case designed for specific phone models.

Being "national interest" does not make it automatically "good". Iran is jamming for "their national interest" as well. Russia is using the same equipment to attack foreign countries. Sometimes it might be difficult to identify whether there is a right and wrong, like when there are two factions in war and both are involved in bad actions. However in many other cases it's not difficult to distinguish. We only have to agree that in the general case killing people is wrong in the general case, a principle that exists in all countries.

1. It was not done "quietly", it was discussed according to due process:
* The legal process: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebgate.ec.europa.eu%2Fr... ; the text https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feur-lex.europa.eu%2Feli%2F...
* August 24 - Bloomberg reporting about the proposal https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.bloomberglaw.com%2F... and
* November 25 - Those who disagreed presented a motion at the European Parliament (which was not approved) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Foeil.europarl.europa.e...
* November 26 - Euronews reporting about the vote at the Parliament https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euronews.com%2Fmy-eu... including quotes from those who were against (and were not a majority).
* December 30 - The Commission published the needed updates (what TFA is reporting about).
* January 19 (next Monday) - The new regulation will start applying.

2. It can be seen as the correction of an anomaly.
As it happens, the 27 out of 27 Member States have ratified international treaties that ban chemical weapons, biological weapons, cluster ammunitions, and personnel mines. Therefore the Commission concludes that these investments must be considered unethical.
To the contrary, only 3 Member States have formal objections to the manufacture of nuclear weapons (Malta, Cyprus, Austria). Therefore no reason to ban such investments EU wide.

Better? Can you imagine a scenario where Russian signal jamming is done for the better?

From the summary: