Hello everybody, thank you for preparing this!
Quick comments form somebody who does not have the time to follow debian-vote: "make the best system we can": Maybe this is a good opportunity to point at our social contract, to show to the readers who have no idea what Debian is how important that the statement is for us, and that it predates the discussions on the CRA. The word "upstream" appears for the first time in point 1b. I am unsure with people with superficial knowledge of what we are doing know what "upstream" means. "The social contract": maybe "Our social contract" is clearer? 2d as it is written feels anti-government, and why would governments listen the needs of an anti-government organisation? The point on centralisation is already made in 2c. It may be remindwd there that threat actors include unlawful governments (and that in EU there as as many governments as members). Then, I would suggest to center 2d on the protection of activists. Maybe it could be said that Debian accept anonymous contributions for that reason, and that (to my knowledge) the CRA does not take that kind of situation into account. "the EU aims to cripple": this is a strong statement that will annoy all readers who believe that the EU aims to make a better world and possibly reduce the support for and impact of the GR. Maybe "If accepted as it is, CRA will cripple" I hope you find my comments helpful. Even if the GR text does not change, I will vote for it anyway. Finally, the conclusion calls for exemptions for small businesses, but why not explicitely call for a clear excemption for large free software projects such as Debian, given all the uncertainty that the CRA would create. After all, we compete with commercial products, we aim to have users beyond our community, and we do send strong signals to our users that they can put a lot of trust on us. In that sense, it may be argued one day by others that we are doing some kind of commerce. Have a nice day, Charles
