>Which is why the EU is now eagerly looking to open source as part of digital decolonization. It wants to end dependency on American software and services, not just for a healthier and more influential home sector, but to protect itself from hostile leverage.
Yay for our continent, we’ll get there, eventually.
nic_haflinger on
A very large portion of the open source software stacks used globally are products of US tech giants like Google, Meta, etc. Most of the contributions to many of the most significant open source software projects also come from US tech giants. To the extent that Europe uses open source to rebuild its technology stack it will be due in large part to US tech giants contributions to open source. Irony doesn’t begin to describe what this article suggests.
Meme-Botto9001 on
I really hope this will going strong someday and not end in disappointment
Nachttalk on
As long as it’s not Germany spear-heading the change i’m fine with a few rocky years
zubairhamed on
i hope it doesn’t start with 3 years of steering committees prior to the fitst commit.
Beyllionaire on
We can never retaliate against the US tariffs unless we become independent from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT.
But even then, it’ll be incomplete unless we the consumers also stop using the American social platforms. That means goodbye Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, Tiktok (if purchased by the US), WhatsApp, Facebook… And that’s actually the hardest part, convincing hundreds of millions of Europeans to give up their social media accounts and migrate to non-american platforms. Creating a European MS Windows is trivial in comparison.
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>Which is why the EU is now eagerly looking to open source as part of digital decolonization. It wants to end dependency on American software and services, not just for a healthier and more influential home sector, but to protect itself from hostile leverage.
Yay for our continent, we’ll get there, eventually.
A very large portion of the open source software stacks used globally are products of US tech giants like Google, Meta, etc. Most of the contributions to many of the most significant open source software projects also come from US tech giants. To the extent that Europe uses open source to rebuild its technology stack it will be due in large part to US tech giants contributions to open source. Irony doesn’t begin to describe what this article suggests.
I really hope this will going strong someday and not end in disappointment
As long as it’s not Germany spear-heading the change i’m fine with a few rocky years
i hope it doesn’t start with 3 years of steering committees prior to the fitst commit.
We can never retaliate against the US tariffs unless we become independent from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT.
But even then, it’ll be incomplete unless we the consumers also stop using the American social platforms. That means goodbye Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, Tiktok (if purchased by the US), WhatsApp, Facebook… And that’s actually the hardest part, convincing hundreds of millions of Europeans to give up their social media accounts and migrate to non-american platforms. Creating a European MS Windows is trivial in comparison.