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Van_quixote
@Vanquixote@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

#OpenSource#TaxTheTechGiants#DigitalCommons#EUSTF#PublicGoods#FLOSS #CyberResilience #linux #kde #fsfe #gnome#FOSS#EU
OpenForum Europe
@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud  ·  activity timestamp last month

🚀 OFE Publishes Landmark Study Calling on Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure through an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)

Our new report urges creation of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) to fix chronic underfunding of open source technologies – the backbone of Europe’s digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, and competitiveness.

🔗 Check it out: eu-stf.openforumeurope.org

🔗 Check out our summary: https://openforumeurope.org/ofe-launches-landmark-study-calling-for-an-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-to-secure-europes-digital-future/

#OpenSource#DigitalSovereignty#EU
Van_quixote
@Vanquixote@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

#OpenSource#TaxTheTechGiants#DigitalCommons#EUSTF#PublicGoods#FLOSS #CyberResilience #linux #kde #fsfe #gnome#FOSS#EU
Matt "msw" Wilson
@msw@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@bkuhn @bwh @bagder @reproducible_builds @lexelas I don’t think I’ve heard any arguments that SBOMs are better than CCS with independently reproducible builds.

But the ages old (unconpelling to me, personally speaking) arguments that producing CCS with build instructions is overly burdensome or impractical remain.

And of course proprietary software vendors would prefer SBOM over CCS with modification permissions in their license.
Bradley M. Kuhn
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@msw

I've heard it from Compliance Industrial Complex folks many times. There are so many ppl seeking to monetize SBOMs; they were entrenched before CRA & hired lobbyists to confuse Brusselcrats into think SBOMs were the ultimate panacea.

It's a mess, but I have hope that
@lexelas can save us! Alex gets these issues & @fsfe is trying to undo the damage as part of the CRA regs (still being written). Europeans should volunteer to help #FSFE on this.

Cc: @bwh @bagder @reproducible_builds