The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy.
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@renchap @alexandrageese Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA/CAIDA): The CADA is now expected to be proposed on 27 May 2026. A flagship legislative initiative aimed at tripling EU data centre capacity, establishing EU-wide eligibility requirements for cloud service providers, and creating a single EU-wide cloud policy for public administrations and procurement. The Act, proposed around the same time as a revision of EU public procurement rules, is being dubbed the "tech sovereignty package"
@renchap @alexandrageese ok... I finally found the agenda of next Commission meeting on the 27th of May, and Open Source is still there (as of 22 April). Henna Virkkunen will be talking about it, as you can see in this PDF
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/api/files/SEC(2026)2563_0/090166e52c7b98a3?rendition=falseCorrection: see my latest post in thread: this agenda has been changed yesterday and the Open Source mention has been removed.
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@renchap @alexandrageese ok... I finally found the agenda of next Commission meeting on the 27th of May, and Open Source is still there (as of 22 April). Henna Virkkunen will be talking about it, as you can see in this PDF
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/api/files/SEC(2026)2563_0/090166e52c7b98a3?rendition=falseCorrection: see my latest post in thread: this agenda has been changed yesterday and the Open Source mention has been removed.
@renchap But... A week ago, Matthieu Pollet was moderating an interview of Thibaut Kleiner at the POLITICO Ai & Tech Week, so he might have heard new developments that are not public yet....
Maybe @alexandrageese knows more about that, as she relayed the news coming from . Pollet today?
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@renchap But... A week ago, Matthieu Pollet was moderating an interview of Thibaut Kleiner at the POLITICO Ai & Tech Week, so he might have heard new developments that are not public yet....
Maybe @alexandrageese knows more about that, as she relayed the news coming from . Pollet today?
@renchap @alexandrageese So, Mattheiw Pollet was right. Unfortunately i can see what he was alluding to. Yesterday, an update for the agenda of the Commission meeting of 27th of May, has been published, and if you compare it to the one I just shared above (dated 22 April), you will see that indeed, "Open Source strategy" is GONE!
Or maybe it has been renamed "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty". Is she gonna talk about Open Source or not? Let's check the minutes -
The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese
Hello, could you please share the URL of the source so we can read more about it? Couldn't find it on my own... -
The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese@bonn.social I just hope that's misreporting, especially considering I can't find any other sources talking about how the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu wants to sabotage itself that way
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese the @EUCommission most definitely is going the wrong way then.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese wtf??? @EUCommission WHY?
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese like with Oil & Gas, #usa has little else to offer that Corporate greet. If we bail out oil, gas and Microsoft, they lose billions, if not trillions. If we get serious, it’s like a 1000% tariff on all that USA has to offer. I still believe that is also a major reason why Putin attacked Ukraine. If you run the gas station for your town and the town tell you that within next years you will not need anymore gas, you get mad. Sure you do anything to stop progress.
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@alexandrageese like with Oil & Gas, #usa has little else to offer that Corporate greet. If we bail out oil, gas and Microsoft, they lose billions, if not trillions. If we get serious, it’s like a 1000% tariff on all that USA has to offer. I still believe that is also a major reason why Putin attacked Ukraine. If you run the gas station for your town and the town tell you that within next years you will not need anymore gas, you get mad. Sure you do anything to stop progress.
@alexandrageese not that I think we don’t have to do it, but some people will get really mad. And the commission feels the pressure. The #usa will try to cut trade with eu in retaliation.
Btw, same with NATO spendings. Trump wanted NATO to spend more, because we bought a lot of our shit in the USA. Now we order more locally and from like minded partners. We have SAFE act. #trump hates it. USA wants uns to spend 5% on defense, but please with US suppliers. -
The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese
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@renchap @alexandrageese So, Mattheiw Pollet was right. Unfortunately i can see what he was alluding to. Yesterday, an update for the agenda of the Commission meeting of 27th of May, has been published, and if you compare it to the one I just shared above (dated 22 April), you will see that indeed, "Open Source strategy" is GONE!
Or maybe it has been renamed "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty". Is she gonna talk about Open Source or not? Let's check the minutes@nextgraph The Open Source Strategy is one of the truly good things, actually pushing for welfare of the population and innovation at the same time. Cutting that would be ludicrous.
If they pull through with cutting it, it is ludicrous.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese Ufff, cutting out the only thing that can give you *real* sovereignty.
Lobbyists been busy beavers again.
@EUCommission we need OSS back in there, and we need them bleeping lobbyists out of the lobbies of decision making.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
Barrels of money lobbying.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu works hard on making the #EU obsolete.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese Thanks for flagging this! I'm not up on this particular issue, could you point us to a good summary of what cutting this open source strategy will affect?
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
When I type this headline in Google, DuckDuckGo, Marginalia Search or Ecosia (as that name appears in the screenshot), none of them finds this article.
I am once again begging everyone to
- cite your sources, ideally with a URL or DOI,
- share text in text format, not in image format,
- not just believe whatever is shared without verifying.Thank you.
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When I type this headline in Google, DuckDuckGo, Marginalia Search or Ecosia (as that name appears in the screenshot), none of them finds this article.
I am once again begging everyone to
- cite your sources, ideally with a URL or DOI,
- share text in text format, not in image format,
- not just believe whatever is shared without verifying.Thank you.
@anuytstt I believe this is a piece from (heavily paywalled) Pro Politico
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@renchap @alexandrageese So, Mattheiw Pollet was right. Unfortunately i can see what he was alluding to. Yesterday, an update for the agenda of the Commission meeting of 27th of May, has been published, and if you compare it to the one I just shared above (dated 22 April), you will see that indeed, "Open Source strategy" is GONE!
Or maybe it has been renamed "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty". Is she gonna talk about Open Source or not? Let's check the minutesDear @HennaVirkkunen we all hope you still plan to include Open Source as one of the pillars of the forthcoming Tech Sovereignty Package that will be discussed in 2 weeks from now at the next Commission meeting.
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When I type this headline in Google, DuckDuckGo, Marginalia Search or Ecosia (as that name appears in the screenshot), none of them finds this article.
I am once again begging everyone to
- cite your sources, ideally with a URL or DOI,
- share text in text format, not in image format,
- not just believe whatever is shared without verifying.Thank you.
@anuytstt @alexandrageese see my investigation in the thread. I was able to find the information online, after a lot of searching.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@alexandrageese I mean, this is completely in line with other moves in this space from EU members (chat control, age verification, tying age verification to Android / iOS device attestation).
Watching this from a distance - Australia - and shaking my head at the US's lurch into fascism, and now the EU's enthusiasm for techno-authoritarianism.
