Regulating Interoperability under the DMA: The Impact on Free Software

How interoperability is regulated in digital markets? How Free Software projects can get access to software and hardware features controlled by big tech in Europe? These are topics dealt in this talk. You will learn about latest legal and regulatory developments in the EU impacting how Free Software projects can get interoperability solutions from big tech.

The talk will present the work of the Free Software Foundation Europe in the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act, a law imposing obligations on big tech related to operating systems, browsers, app stores and software freedom.

In this talk you will learn the experience of Free Software projects with interoperability in environments controlled by Apple, specially related to iOS and iPadOS.