<![CDATA[The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy.]]>The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/55b4e844-b358-496e-9ce3-8600fb885874/the-european-commission-kills-an-important-driver-of-european-sovereignty-and-competitiveness-the-open-source-strategy.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 09:11:38 GMTTue, 12 May 2026 19:34:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Thu, 14 May 2026 15:55:28 GMT]]>@peter_koenig @alexandrageese
Every other explanation is way gloomier:
What's the only thing standing between you and a world with total surveillance, mandatory IDs in every app and forced backdoors in messengers? Crazy hackers doing independent stuff and open-sourcing it for everybody to use it freely.
I'm not sure yet on the details, but I would not bet against Open Source getting outlawed some time soon.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/musevg/statuses/116573741255760198https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/musevg/statuses/116573741255760198Thu, 14 May 2026 15:55:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Thu, 14 May 2026 15:49:03 GMT]]>@peter_koenig @alexandrageese
The most positive explanation for this step is a hint a very senior German automotive exec gave me 20+ years ago:
Open Source doesn't buy cars.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/musevg/statuses/116573716082411538https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://23.social/users/musevg/statuses/116573716082411538Thu, 14 May 2026 15:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 20:36:44 GMT]]>@nextgraph @HennaVirkkunen @ngi @EC_NGI @renchap @alexandrageese
Yes, please confirm this.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dwa/statuses/116569184992405658https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dwa/statuses/116569184992405658Wed, 13 May 2026 20:36:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 15:51:22 GMT]]>@alexandrageese there is no tech sovereignty without . You're not in control of your digital fate unless you're entitled to see and modify the sources of your complete software stack. Even non-technical folks at the @EUCommission should have grasped that by now - so please reconsider.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://rheinneckar.social/users/lambert/statuses/116568062868257603https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://rheinneckar.social/users/lambert/statuses/116568062868257603Wed, 13 May 2026 15:51:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 12:07:25 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/duncan_bayne/statuses/116567182245429468https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/duncan_bayne/statuses/116567182245429468Wed, 13 May 2026 12:07:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 10:41:32 GMT]]>@anuytstt @alexandrageese see my investigation in the thread. I was able to find the information online, after a lot of searching.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116566844559570800https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116566844559570800Wed, 13 May 2026 10:41:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 10:10:09 GMT]]>Dear @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.

@ngi @EC_NGI
@renchap @alexandrageese

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116566721159829305https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116566721159829305Wed, 13 May 2026 10:10:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 09:26:25 GMT]]>@anuytstt I believe this is a piece from (heavily paywalled) Pro Politico

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/janwlrvn/statuses/116566549149795680https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/janwlrvn/statuses/116566549149795680Wed, 13 May 2026 09:26:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 09:11:16 GMT]]>@alexandrageese

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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/anuytstt/statuses/116566489598973117https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/anuytstt/statuses/116566489598973117Wed, 13 May 2026 09:11:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 07:50:51 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.librem.one/users/eighthave/statuses/116566173376172907https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.librem.one/users/eighthave/statuses/116566173376172907Wed, 13 May 2026 07:50:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 07:42:06 GMT]]>@alexandrageese The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu works hard on making the obsolete.
WORK FOR US OR LEAVE !

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://olching.social/users/GerhardD/statuses/116566139007146327https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://olching.social/users/GerhardD/statuses/116566139007146327Wed, 13 May 2026 07:42:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 07:31:54 GMT]]>@alexandrageese

Barrels of money lobbying.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/kevinrns/statuses/116566098852728290https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/kevinrns/statuses/116566098852728290Wed, 13 May 2026 07:31:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:44:49 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mementomori.social/users/Turre/statuses/116565677819289664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mementomori.social/users/Turre/statuses/116565677819289664Wed, 13 May 2026 05:44:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:38:23 GMT]]>@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.
@renchap @alexandrageese

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://rollenspiel.social/users/ArneBab/statuses/116565652494027775https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://rollenspiel.social/users/ArneBab/statuses/116565652494027775Wed, 13 May 2026 05:38:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:34:22 GMT]]>@alexandrageese
@EUCommission why such a move?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonn.social/users/askans/statuses/116565636716748693https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonn.social/users/askans/statuses/116565636716748693Wed, 13 May 2026 05:34:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:32:13 GMT]]>@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 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. hates it. USA wants uns to spend 5% on defense, but please with US suppliers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nrw.social/users/vgoller/statuses/116565628236891958https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nrw.social/users/vgoller/statuses/116565628236891958Wed, 13 May 2026 05:32:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:23:26 GMT]]>@alexandrageese like with Oil & Gas, 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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nrw.social/users/vgoller/statuses/116565593734322140https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nrw.social/users/vgoller/statuses/116565593734322140Wed, 13 May 2026 05:23:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 04:59:13 GMT]]>@alexandrageese wtf??? @EUCommission WHY?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116565498481079635https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116565498481079635Wed, 13 May 2026 04:59:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 04:36:48 GMT]]>@alexandrageese the @EUCommission most definitely is going the wrong way then.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/FlippoFlip/statuses/116565410369015226https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/FlippoFlip/statuses/116565410369015226Wed, 13 May 2026 04:36:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 03:08:25 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/users/tanja/statuses/116565062801137673https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/users/tanja/statuses/116565062801137673Wed, 13 May 2026 03:08:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:33 GMT]]>@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...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/adalanerd/statuses/116564736935212678https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/adalanerd/statuses/116564736935212678Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 01:17:00 GMT]]>@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

Register of Commission Documents

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116564624696304815https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116564624696304815Wed, 13 May 2026 01:17:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 01:02:17 GMT]]>@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....

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The fresh comments suggest Brussels plans to take a tough approach to wean the continent off foreign technology.

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Maybe @alexandrageese knows more about that, as she relayed the news coming from . Pollet today?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116564566862851032https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116564566862851032Wed, 13 May 2026 01:02:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. on Wed, 13 May 2026 00:55:48 GMT]]>@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=false

Correction: see my latest post in thread: this agenda has been changed yesterday and the Open Source mention has been removed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116564541374305610https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/nextgraph/statuses/116564541374305610Wed, 13 May 2026 00:55:48 GMT