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This is absolutely massive for the FOSS community. A sovereign nation has resources that dwarf anything that the FOSS community has ever had access to.
Now, they just need to repeal the anti-circumvention laws. That'll cut the US tech sector deeply by allowing us to use the products that we pay for in the ways that we want.
So the EC joins the usa boycot. Finally some good eu news. 'Bout time i might add.
Thank fucking God that they're finally waking up. This is long overdue.
"Brussels spouts plan open..."
One day the headline will match my reading fails
Took me 3 readings to realize you did not write "brussel sprouts" (Now i'm sad, i love brussel sprouts)
look at the success Steam has made prying power away from Microsoft by investing into Linux.
Freedom is right there, just invest in it and we all benefit.
This should have been done 20 years ago, but better late than never.
This is tinkering around the edges. Just fine Twitter millions a day for child sexual imagery. End of story. What are they fucking about for? Seriously, why the delay?
Millions. Millions a day. That will get their attention. Lord knows the actual law hasn't.
That sounds more like tinkering around the edges to me. Whipping companies like Twitter into behaving, while it absolutely needs to happen, won't fundamentally change anything about the dependency of Europe to those companies and the pressure the US can exert through that dependency.
Many battles. One fight.
And in 10 years they'll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that's European hosted... In another five years.
You are not wrong. Methinks a lot of Europe's lack of digital infrastructure is related to the mountains of red tape every person and company in the EU has to face. It's really discouraging.
The reason for a lack of development is basically entirely economics. expensive to make, and difficult to make money on since the established players can already operate for cheap and even economically bully new players
Feel like they have been talking about this forever, maybe Trump will finally be the push they need.
They need to stick the landing. America will threaten and bully. I've also heard some are afraid of the cost and complexity of doing something like this. Hopefully they do realize the necessity of it and stay the course despite all of that.
Man, this is a must! EU media/entertainment is just too dominated by The USA products!
Didn’t they switch to Microsoft recently?
