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39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community
Original: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-lightning-talks-tag-2
License CC-BY
Webpage: https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/interop-survey
Survey: https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en
The Digital Markets Act promises a new right to interoperability, but its real value depends on whether developers and communities can actually use it. For Free Software projects, interoperability is not only a market issue but a precondition for community-led innovation and user autonomy. This lightning talk introduces the FSFE’s DMA Interoperability Survey, a community-driven effort to collect developers’ shared experiences of requesting interoperability under Article 6(7) of the DMA. By amplifying these voices, the survey helps turn individual struggles into collective evidence that can support effective enforcement and fairer digital ecosystems.
Free Software communities rely on interoperability to collaborate, innovate, and offer users meaningful alternatives to dominant platforms. While the DMA establishes a legal right to request interoperability from gatekeepers, early experiences show that exercising this right can be complex, resource-intensive, and discouraging, especially for volunteer-driven and not-for-profit projects.
This lightning talk presents the FSFE’s DMA Interoperability Survey as a tool for community participation and mutual support. The survey enables developers to document their experiences, share common obstacles, and make visible patterns of behaviour that no single project could demonstrate alone. It turns scattered, individual interactions with gatekeepers into a collective picture of how interoperability works in practice.
By centring community knowledge and lived experience, the talk argues that effective DMA enforcement depends on active engagement from developers and Free Software communities themselves. Interoperability is not enforced only in courtrooms or regulatory offices, but also through shared documentation, solidarity, and sustained community input that helps ensure the DMA delivers real freedom to build, modify, and share software across platforms.
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By Original: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-lightning-talks-tag-2
License CC-BY
Webpage: https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/interop-survey
Survey: https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en
The Digital Markets Act promises a new right to interoperability, but its real value depends on whether developers and communities can actually use it. For Free Software projects, interoperability is not only a market issue but a precondition for community-led innovation and user autonomy. This lightning talk introduces the FSFE’s DMA Interoperability Survey, a community-driven effort to collect developers’ shared experiences of requesting interoperability under Article 6(7) of the DMA. By amplifying these voices, the survey helps turn individual struggles into collective evidence that can support effective enforcement and fairer digital ecosystems.
Free Software communities rely on interoperability to collaborate, innovate, and offer users meaningful alternatives to dominant platforms. While the DMA establishes a legal right to request interoperability from gatekeepers, early experiences show that exercising this right can be complex, resource-intensive, and discouraging, especially for volunteer-driven and not-for-profit projects.
This lightning talk presents the FSFE’s DMA Interoperability Survey as a tool for community participation and mutual support. The survey enables developers to document their experiences, share common obstacles, and make visible patterns of behaviour that no single project could demonstrate alone. It turns scattered, individual interactions with gatekeepers into a collective picture of how interoperability works in practice.
By centring community knowledge and lived experience, the talk argues that effective DMA enforcement depends on active engagement from developers and Free Software communities themselves. Interoperability is not enforced only in courtrooms or regulatory offices, but also through shared documentation, solidarity, and sustained community input that helps ensure the DMA delivers real freedom to build, modify, and share software across platforms.