Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko @EUCommission Oh btw @servo is kind of that, it's based entirely in the EU and is supported by the Linux Foundation, it's made from the ground-up in Rust, no other browser engine!
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko @EUCommission (coughs politely) LibreWolf (cough)
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu It would need to be some independent entity. Otherwise they will build age verification and scanning into the browser accidentally. The barrier would be too low, imo.
But something like sovereign tech fund funding a browser seems quite reachable, but the mozilla foundation sadly doesn't really accept funding for developing the browser (to my knowledge)... -
@eniko @EUCommission (coughs politely) LibreWolf (cough)
@wyatt_h_knott @eniko @EUCommission librewolf is not the solution. It's a lightweight fork. A real hard-fork is needed for real change and to make a good browser against google and mozillas wills
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@wyatt_h_knott @eniko @EUCommission librewolf is not the solution. It's a lightweight fork. A real hard-fork is needed for real change and to make a good browser against google and mozillas wills
@joshix Fair enough. I only suggested it to illustrate that there are plenty of ways to get free of surveillance, people are doing it all over the place.
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
It would be enough to fork it. I've been saying this forever.
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko @EUCommission
Vivaldi is a better browser than Firefox and european as well. -
Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko Somewhat not entirely in favor of this, due to the whole "WebPKI vs eIDAS QWACS" thing (i.e. Firefox as the "EU browser" would probably lose the sovereignity that it currently has in terms of which "trusted" CAs it bundles by default, and even though I have a positive view of eIDAS for document signing and user auth and such, I feel like it has no business touching web server certs)
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@eniko @EUCommission
Vivaldi is a better browser than Firefox and european as well.@anthrazit don't think chrome in a different jacket buys a lot of sovereignty
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
Problem is , EU it self doesn't follow its own rules, it is becoming authoritarian soon,
EU is on its way to soften up GDPR, the laws for groceries,
It soon starting with the age verification app. -
Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko @KimSJ @EUCommission The EU is a lawyer-powered organisation. Talk to China if you want any engineering done.
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko @EUCommission oh! And we could call it Firefeux (“feux” meaning fires in French)
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko @EUCommission buy Servo buy Servo buy Servo they banned LLM code fund Servo
Ahem I think it would be ethical and sovereign if the EU supported the Servo browser project
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@eniko @EUCommission buy Servo buy Servo buy Servo they banned LLM code fund Servo
Ahem I think it would be ethical and sovereign if the EU supported the Servo browser project
@konstruct @EUCommission this would also be an acceptable outcome
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Hey @EUCommission have you considered just like, buying Mozilla and making Firefox the sovereign EU browser?
Or even just funding a non-profit to maintain an EU fork which does things like respect EU laws and regulations
Think about it
@eniko I do not Ursula von der Leyen to have control of my web browser. No way.
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@eniko @EUCommission buy Servo buy Servo buy Servo they banned LLM code fund Servo
Ahem I think it would be ethical and sovereign if the EU supported the Servo browser project
@konstruct @eniko @EUCommission They'd want to unban LLM code. Europe being "the AI continent".
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@eniko @EUCommission Oh btw @servo is kind of that, it's based entirely in the EU and is supported by the Linux Foundation, it's made from the ground-up in Rust, no other browser engine!
@webbop @eniko @EUCommission @servo See where the Linux Foundation is located, and the latest outcomes from Rust internals.
Sorry, I don't see anything good in both of them. -
@eniko @EUCommission buy Servo buy Servo buy Servo they banned LLM code fund Servo
Ahem I think it would be ethical and sovereign if the EU supported the Servo browser project
@konstruct @eniko @EUCommission Servo banned LLMs?
And servo is written in Rust, right?
Let's see for how long that will hold. -
@eniko @KimSJ @EUCommission The EU is a lawyer-powered organisation. Talk to China if you want any engineering done.
@t_var_s @eniko @KimSJ @EUCommission China? I think that in Hong Kong and Taiwan they have a different feeling.
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It would be enough to fork it. I've been saying this forever.
@booboo @eniko @EUCommission And this would be a better idea than buying an US based company to develop EU software.
Oh well, then why not simply fund and support #LibreWolf which is already hosted on #Codeberg and developed in Europe?
