OpenForum Europe
@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

🚀 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  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

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