Agreed... And they will. They will want functions that are stable and works... They can easily put some funds into that...

Public money, public infra and public funding? :)

I'm pretty sure the reason why this won't be happening is (as always): it doesn't make the rich richer and it doesn't have immediate benefits you can point to for your reelection.

EU is pretty good at funding stuff actually, but mind your pitchforks if you see Hyprland, Ladybird or some other bigotfueled projects on some collateral-funding list.

It's an recurrent claim by the right wings, but same as the Chatcontrol, rejected, because incompatibility with the privacy rights in the EU which would be violated with Palantir and the Chat control.. There isn't any reason to introduce the control, because the current law permits an individual chat control in an crime investigation with an court order, but not an global control, which would be the same as open and controlling private cards and correspondence, which obvious is a no go.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-deutschland-sagt-nein-zu-chatkontrolle,Uz1fO08

https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/chatkontrolle-eu-deutschland-bmjv-hubig-whatsapp-signal

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/chatkontrolle-eu-justizministerin-100.html

conservative german politicians in particular continue to pursue their shady dealings.

and will push their gov'ts back into the microsoft/google fold when they approve purchase of the next big system; and you can only hope that palantir isn't it.

Spread it around with every German you know. Or even post on Germany related communities

Friendly little reminder:

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini

A thousand percent yes! Wait wait WAIT BIG IDEA!!!

Everybody listen up, let's all suggest to EU Countries to partner up with PostmarketOS, Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, & Free Software Foundation's Librephone project so they can all get funding!!

That way they can get made way faster than they are now

Well, respect AI, there is a big one from Swiss, Apertus with its PublicAI, using the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), also used by the CERN. All 100%FOSS and privacy centred. I currently use the PublicAI in my bookmarks (free account (nick,mail). The Apertus dataset can also be downloaded if someone want to selfhost it (~90 GB min)

Well, LibreOffice and other free office suites use by default .odt, but all are capable to open and export any other document format, even more than MSOffice is capable to do. In Spain since years administrations and companies are usin LibreOffice and OpenOffice without problems. Spain is one of the most advanced countries in the EU respect OpenSource-

Open Source Initiatives and Events in Spain

Spain has several notable open source initiatives and events spanning education, government, and industry:

Government Initiatives

The Galician government launched Mancomún in 2006 to promote free and open source software (FOSS), achieving significant cost savings by migrating public administration to LibreOffice and other open source tools[^9]. By 2018, the government completed migration of all workstations to open source productivity suites, reducing licensing costs by 50% (€1.7 million annually)[^9].

Major Events

Open Source Summit Europe takes place in Spain, with the 2023 event held in Bilbao from September 19-21[^8]. The summit brings together developers, technologists and community leaders to advance open source innovation[^8].

Education and Resources

Several Spanish-language open educational resources support learning:

• El Atareao (atareao.es), a Spanish blog focused on GNU/Linux and open source topics[^1]
• Español Abierto, a collection maintained by the University of Texas for Spanish language learners[^3]
• LibriVox's Spanish audiobook collection featuring public domain works[^3]

Business Adoption

Major companies recognize Spain's open source expertise. In 2016, Accenture acquired Spanish firm Tecnilógica to expand its open source capabilities, noting the company's skill in "using emerging and open source technologies"[^7].

[^1]: My Linux story: Covering open source in Spanish [^3]: 6 open educational resources for learning Spanish [^7]: Accenture Acquires Tecnilógica to Scale Its Open Source Digital Skills in Spain [^8]: Open Source Summit Europe (Bilbao, Spain) – Zephyr Project [^9]: Free & Open Source Software in Galicia, Spain: The Mancomún Project

See also https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/spain-2025-country-report

Someone else on this post made a huge comment about how Spain has been using lots of Open Source stuff for long time

This is basically kubernetes with a couple of custom resource definitions, no?

Maybe something like OpenStack?

nix?

Clearly it isn't easy to switch away from US corporative services and the way to go is OpenSource and if not, using instead EU products and services. It's still a long way to go, the way is made walking. It's about souvereignity, not depending on greedy US companies, less with this stupid Australopithecus as President. Time to show him the middlefinger, as at least Spain already does.

Your comments are not wrong, but also Trump is not the sole issue here. There would still be a problem even if he was removed from office today.

Proprietary software and services are an issue regardless of which government jurisdiction they fall under. It's a good idea for the EU to be moving to open source instead of proprietary solutions based in the EU.

In Spain there are more and more shops selling PCs only with FreeDOS to the user choice which OS he want to use. I need to use Windows for several reasons, but it's gutted and debloated to the mere OS (<1GB).

GOG is DRM free though!

Open steam sauce?
Nah.

Open sauce steam?
Smart, democratic.

While I wish there was an Open Source client, I can only imagine why Valve does not want that. First, it would help fakers and scammers too. Steam has a Scammer problem. Secondly, it could help the competition. At least an official API would go a long way, to enable the community to write their own Open Source client based on the API.

I think that it don't mean the Steam website, but steam pressure.

The good thing about open source is that it's open, so hopefully it will benefit everyone. Of course, hosting always cost money, but the tech itself isn't locking you in.

I don't understand

It will happen though everything takes time and effort. Wonder what a Mastercard/Visa open source alternative would even look like though. Facebook alt I am debating making myself with a team of interested people but building it out to see how it would be done

Open Source Alternatives:

• PostmarketOS, Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, and FSF Librephone (Europe should partner with them all for funding)
• All kinds of AWS, and Google alts for each product: alternativeto.net shows plenty
• A person is making a LinkedIn/Indeed alternative (They posted on the Open Source community here on Lemmy) and want to make a team overtime too
• Stoat for open source Discord alt also a team in place
• A team is working on Flashes (IG Alt)
• Another team on Spark.so (TTok Alt) 2 decent alternatives for now until we get full blown decentralized options

What do Canadians have to do with European tech sovereignty? Why are you trying to hijack this thread?

And for Canadians, what realistic alternatives are you suggesting for everything you've listed?

If you want to be taken seriously, start by proposing an actionable plan.