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This view is not arrogance, I should know, having worked at the heart of this mess for 30 years

With the growing influx of #EU funding into the #openweb we will see an increase in #techchurn due to the #geekproblem being feed by #mainstreaming #stupidindividualism of most of the #fashernista who can jump through the bureaucracy gatekeeper hoops.

Hoping for a balance of good vs damage, though the shear blinded arrogance of the vertical crew push us to the damage side. #NGI do not want to see this problem, we as a community need to push back on this for a better outcome

Some examples […]

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Composting the EU Tech Mess: From #NLnet to #Eurostack

There’s an old rot in the heart of European tech policy – and it’s not just from the corporate lobbies. It’s also sprouting from the well-funded, #NGO-flavoured corners of what should have been grassroots. A contradiction that tells us everything we need to know about how broken the current #EU #mainstreaming crew and paths are.

Take #Eurostack for example, on paper, it looks decent: a collaborative push toward European digital sovereignty, resilience, and open-source infrastructure. […]

How sovereign do you want to be?

That’s the question asked in this recent article https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/en-is-dit-dan-de-oplossing/

Too often, so-called “sovereign clouds” are little more than Big Tech repackaged. Real sovereignty is about control, jurisdiction, and privacy by design—not marketing fluff.

The good news? Europe is full of remarkable privacy-first companies, they just need demand.

Choose privacy-first, European alternatives. Let’s grow the demand that will grow the ecosystem.
#sovereign #Privacy#eu