New from me: France is done with US big tech companies—arguably its moving away from American tech faster than other countries in Europe
The French government has built its own replacement for Google Docs/Microsoft Office. Cities, including Lyon, are moving to Linux and other tech. Open source is at the center of their efforts.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-going-through-a-trump-fueled-breakup-with-big-tech/
@mattburgess @onepict I hope the French government are also donating to OSS projects they're now depending on. They've got the resources.
Huh…actually, all of Europe financially supporting OSS would upend Big Tech’s stranglehold of tech.
@netopwibby @mattburgess I'm glad for the existence of @sovtechfund and @NGIZero (which was funded by the @EUCommission )
While @ngi is comming to an end, I hope this period of political turbulence and the danger of allowing the USA to have so much power over our technology will enable the EU and member governments to rethink it's stance on funding #NextGenerationEU
https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter
@onepict @netopwibby @mattburgess @sovtechfund @NGIZero @ngi
Fwiw, the @EUCommission uses #OpenLDAP with support from Symas. They certainly seem to have prioritized support of open source infrastructure, at least.
Nice I didn't know that. It's great to see the EU supporting you, via a contract with Symas .
@mattburgess While this is great news, if the tools are owned and controlled by a minority of people in power in the government, this is only marginally better. What we really want is for workers and users to have power over their own tools.
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