The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy.

[askans@bonn.social]

@alexandrageese
@EUCommission why such a move?

[arnebab@rollenspiel.social]

@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

[turre@mementomori.social]

@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.

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@alexandrageese

Barrels of money lobbying.

[gerhardd@olching.social]

@alexandrageese The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu works hard on making the #EU obsolete.
WORK FOR US OR LEAVE !

[eighthave@social.librem.one]

@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?

[anuytstt@fosstodon.org]

@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.

[janwlrvn@social.coop]

@anuytstt I believe this is a piece from (heavily paywalled) Pro Politico

[nextgraph@fosstodon.org]

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

[nextgraph@fosstodon.org]

@anuytstt @alexandrageese see my investigation in the thread. I was able to find the information online, after a lot of searching.

[duncan_bayne@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@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.

[lambert@rheinneckar.social]

@alexandrageese there is no tech sovereignty without #opensource . 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. #digitalsovereignty

[dwa@mastodon.social]

@nextgraph @HennaVirkkunen @ngi @EC_NGI @renchap @alexandrageese
Yes, please confirm this.

[musevg@23.social]

@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.

[musevg@23.social]

@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.