The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy.
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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.
WORK FOR US OR LEAVE ! -
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.
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The European Commission kills an important driver of European sovereignty and competitiveness: the open source strategy. What a shame!
@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
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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.
@nextgraph @HennaVirkkunen @ngi @EC_NGI @renchap @alexandrageese
Yes, please confirm this. -
Thanks!
Un-be-lie-va-ble!
Is there a reason for this (other than the fact that the great dictator doesn’t like the freedom of his subjects, and that Ms. von der Leyen is just as repulsively subservient to him as Rutte is...)?
Does this woman actually realize how ridiculous she makes herself by claiming “sovereignty” when the “owners of the code- and the data-monopolies” are allowed take their secrets to their graves?
What a crime against Europe and against our Enlightenment!
@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. -
@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.@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. -
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