Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.
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@aral They are legally not capable to do that. The US government is by US law basically a lurker in all meetings.
Any corporation owned by US entities is by this trivial logical argument incapable to serve in any such role.
(Which is btw very similar to some arguments of the ECJ in the Schrems cases, privacy is a basic right in the EU, non-privacy is the primary guiding principle of the US law, and a skinny executive order pretends to protect EU residents' privacy rights in the USA.)
@aral I just don't get why people fall for this. Are they hoping money from Microsoft drops in their laps?
@aral indeed, utterly ridiculous. Do you have a background link for me to read on the subject?
@smallcircles @aral
I don't know if this qualifies as background. Anyway you might guess who owns GitHub:
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/
@KingmaYpe @aral
Thank you!
Btw, I use this Harvard study as good article to point out the inherent unsustainability of FOSS as a movement, when pitted against the overwhelming success of FOSS as the software..
@aral why EU does not choose FOSS and EU made solutions ? For me there two reasons : (1) corruption and (2) the FOSS world is preferring non centralised solutions (like fediverse ): so there is no simple way to control it. And my guess is that reason (2) is very important for EU Commission….
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