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James Smith 💾
James Smith 💾
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

You could take everyone at the closing speech of #FOSDEM and give them all €50k a year to work purely on open source for the measly sum of €75m - not that much more than it cost to make one crappy Melania Trump documentary.

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Rosanna Sibora
Rosanna Sibora
@RosannaSibora@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Floppy let’s be generous. 😎 Since European companies spend ca. €265 billion per year on US cloud software and services for business use, I guess we could cover every #FOSDEM participant. 💸

Source: study by Cigref (2025).

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SeanBurlington
SeanBurlington
@sean@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@RosannaSibora @Floppy I am puzzled as to why governments don't all have their own (secure and sovereign) operating systems etc

I mean I'd have thought national security would be imperative enough - but wouldn't it also save money ?

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Rosanna Sibora
Rosanna Sibora
@RosannaSibora@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@sean @Floppy I'm also asking myself if paying more is even compliant if you could pay waaaay less...
#publicmoneypublicCode

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James Smith 💾
James Smith 💾
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@RosannaSibora @sean never underestimate the power of business lobbying I guess.

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