Upstream 2024 | Government carrot v stick: Exploring 2 approaches to improving open source security

Governments are starting to believe that their traditional hands-off approach to open source no longer makes sense. But what then? Europe is providing examples of both “carrot” and “stick”: providing incentives to people and organizations to do more security work (i.e. the carrot) or penalizing them for not doing the work or after security incidents happen (i.e. the stick). In this fireside chat, Tidelift co-founder and general counsel Luis Villa sits down with Fiona Krakenbürger from the Sovereign Tech Fund and Mirko Boehm from the Linux Foundation Europe to discuss the impending CRA legislation in the EU (the biggest government stick to date) and the Sovereign Tech Fund’s “carrot” approach to funding open security.