That is clear.
What I'm pointing out is your absolutist view on success may be wrong.
If it doesn't support J2ME it'll be dead on arrival.
If it doesn't support iOS apps, it'll be dead on arrival.
If it doesn't support .exe it'll be dead on arrival.
If it doesn't support APKs it'll be dead on arrival.
"You could trivially build such a system by getting an FTP account". Shared storage doesn't replace USB sticks, it's dead on arrival.
Running APsK is possible even if you're not Google. Running iOS apps is not.
A phone that doesn't run iOS apps is dead on arrival.
OK, but a phone OS that doesn't run APKs is deaf on arrival.
Make a real plan to divest yourselves of all US tech. This is the only way forward.
As an American, how can any of our products be trusted if the FBI and NSA are for sale to the highest bidder
It's not ready, it's got a long way to go.
Ready, but is it willing?
"If we do not act now to reduce Europe's technological dependence on foreign actors, we run the risk of becoming a digital colony," said Michal Kobosko
So well said.
As much as I'm not into X/Twitter, I'm sure as hell not into photo verification either.
And for that reason, I'm out
I dont understand why the publishers don't host their own servers. The fediverse is out there, there are ways to request donations, they could work together with opensource devs to have a built in donation system, they can publish everything on opensource platforms.
Instead, they are trying to negotiate with companies that don't give a fuck about them. That's weak. Find your own solutions, find your own sources of revenue. Trying to strike a deal with US tech companies is just negotiating your own demise or giving up power.
The EU knows what it wants and why it wants it.
I can only hope that it really does. There's no doubt closed source companies will try to lobby for closed source components, regardless of whether it's good for the EU or not.
If you haven't heard yet, you can provide evidence and opinion to the European Commission on the importance of opensource here.
We better all flood this. It's a good chance of getting funding for opensource, which is very much needed. An EU wide mandate to get rid of US tech in anything governmental would be killer.
FYI: I posted this also on Reddit where it gathered 1.4k upvotes and lots of comments. Then it was removed without any explanation. 😡
At least Ursula and EU are already working on our own satellite IRIS2, our own green energy, and we're investing in european and/or open source software, like Wero, that digital paying app, and other companies stay in Europe, and not letting themselves be bought out by american tech.
But its not like companies wanna invest in Europe cause they get way more freedom in the US and the corruption from big tech government in the US government is astonishing, they have so much power over the US gov, they already banned european commissioners who critized and fined facebook and X for violating human privacy rights and rights to credible information not just misinformation, they are now banned from entering the US, smh
At least we still have ASML and mistral and im glad Cristina Caffarra is working on this, much needed!!! And all voluntarily as well, love her!
Along the same lines, this article in the Financial Times today:
Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief
Some quotes below:
Europe is so far behind the US in digital infrastructure it has “lost the internet”, a top European cyber enforcer has warned.
Miguel De Bruycker, director of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), told the Financial Times that it was “currently impossible” to store data fully in Europe because US companies dominate digital infrastructure.
“We’ve lost the whole cloud. We have lost the internet, let’s be honest,” De Bruycker said. “If I want my information 100 per cent in the EU . . . keep on dreaming,” he added. “You’re setting an objective that is not realistic.”
The Belgian official warned that Europe’s cyber defences depended on the co-operation of private companies, most of which are American. “In cyber space, everything is commercial. Everything is privately owned,” he said.
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Europe needed to build its own capabilities to strengthen innovation and security, said De Bruycker, adding that legislation such as the EU’s AI Act, which regulates the development of the fast-developing technology, was “blocking” innovation.
He suggested that EU governments should support private initiatives to build scale in areas such as cloud computing or digital identification technologies.
It could be similar to when European countries jointly set up the planemaker Airbus, he said: “Everybody was supporting the Airbus initiatives decades ago. We need the same initiative on [an] EU level in the cyber domain.”
Yes, it's true: hope dies last. Perhaps our leaders will finally realize how dangerous it is to be absolutely dependent - and on such an unpredictable regime at that. Many Countries from the East understood the importance of digital sovereignty decades ago and have largely built up their own systems. In Europe, this has been prevented by massive lobbying, but perhaps something will really happen now that we are being blackmailed because of our self-inflicted dependence.
This would be extremely important, but unfortunately it is unlikely to happen with our politicians. On the contrary, they are even signing new deals with companies such as Palantir, thereby providing the US regime with the most sensitive information about EU citizens. So, unfortunately, there is little to be expected in this regard.
If the EU can throw off the shackles from the US, that would be freedom worth gaining. Unless it is traded in for European oligarchs.
It would be so great if the world actually had the resolve to pull that off.
It is what should happen but I am not holding my breath.
I wonder what the data center owning oligarchs are going to think in a year when the only customer they can sell their product to is the US? Maybe bankrolling the current regime wasn’t such a great idea after all.
To maximise reuse and transparency, any jointly developed software is by default released under Free and Open-Source licences.
Please, also on selfhosted infrastructure. Put it on forgejo, if it really is necessary Gitlab, or write your own sourceforge. Just please dont put it on github.
Coming milestones planned include the official recruitment of the Director and founding team, and launch of a DEP support project.
If th y get a director from a US company, it will be a great way to torpedo the entire project. Hopefully they tap somebody working in opensource or at least has opensource values.
This is the sort of news that might make a difference. Consumers aren't going to give up Win11 enough to make a difference, but government agencies publically ditching the Microsoft hot mess makes headlines, and prompts others to consider following.
I dare to be a little excited about this. Formally including opensource in the criteria is an amazing step and could unlock major funding.
If this doesn't just apply to services governments buy to operate but services they host to communicate, twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tiktok, instagram, Youtube, and others will not make the cut. They are neither opensource nor are they European in any way, shape or form. Having all government institutions in the EU leave those platforms for the fediverse and others... But that's just dreaming at this point.