Open Source Sovereignty Gets Down to the Boring Business of Making It Work
The Register, Friday, October 16th, 2026
At Open Source Summit Europe, sovereignty talk turned to migration targets, security rules and compliance metrics.
AI and digital sovereignty dominated Open Source Summit Europe, and the sovereignty sessions offered practical plans.
Keynotes covered geopolitics and open source, OSS supply-chain security, and OpenSSF's ORBIT effort to catalog open source components for Cyber Resilience Act compliance, including the CRA Baseline for Open Source Consumption.
CRA reporting duties for actively exploited vulnerabilities began last month, with the main requirements applying from December 2027.
The EU Open Source Observatory also presented its 2026 report, which covers national efforts beyond the EU.