The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source
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The EU's €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source
On July 16, the European Commission proposed a €2tn seven-year budget – the largest in the EU’s history – to boost autonomy, competitiveness, and resilience. The spending plan ...Daniel Stenberg (The Next Web)
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Michael
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •N0tSure
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •John Ulrik
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Brokar
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •The usual suspects, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle etc. have a huge lobby sitting in Brussels to make sure that the companies will get a big piece of the cake.
Open Source sadly has no lobby. I wish there was.
Also the term 'sovereignty' is somewhat a buzzword and they don't in any way understand that this cannot be accomplished with any US tech company which provide cloud services.
This is what you get when you have people in power, esp. v.d.Leyen, who don't understand what's at stake.
LogicalErzor
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •LogicalErzor
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •ive created a draft within pmOS to try and get an open letter going: gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma…
will be useful if other open source/foss projects signed on
#OpenSource #linux #linuxmobile #PostmarketOS
An Open Letter Regarding EU's €2T Budget Disregarding Open Source (#121) · Issues · postmarketOS / postmarketOS · GitLab
GitLabdoragasu
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Lobaluna
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •in order to make them turn to open source, the license must prohibit commercial use; then will start realizing the true value of open source
There's nothing wrong in having a license that prohibit commercial use; it's a fair behavior; besides, a concept (absolute freedom) must never be above foss people and their generous efforts
Koen 🇺🇦
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