European companies like Airbus, Dassault, and OVHcloud apparently want Europe to reduce its dependence on US tech companies.
Thoughts?
I would love for such a fund to invest very liberally in these companies, on the condition that anything it funds must be free and open source - public money, public code! The only way to take down these giant US companies is to work together, and the most effective way to work together is to release everything in the open.
If the money just gets funneled into these companies so they can build their own lock-in, the EU would be recreating the same dependency on a few small companies that happened in the US. It wouldn’t increase productivity in the long run, it would instead substitute dependency on a few US companies for a few EU companies.
But, if they invest in open source software, it could spur innovation not only in the companies that are directly funded, but also thousands of other companies throughout the EU that would now have common infrastructure that they can build on top of.
Multipolarism is good for everyone. Even if you hate the EU, it is a good for no single country to dominate everything from culture to technology.
Please let this finally be the year of the Linux desktop.
For me it finally is. 😎
Giggity
I’ve been mainly on Linux for a few years now and honestly once you have your alternative apps going it’s golden.
Open source and copyleft please.
Wise, but long overdue.
We’re going to entering the find out stage of the USA’s fucking around pretty damn soon.
I hate that I live here and have to face consequences for something I was vehemently and vocally against.
US techies also call for that. Y’know. Just. For completeness’ sake.
Learn from the best of the US example and leapfrog from using opensource and the best of the Chinese example using open hardware.
There are so many places where good FOSS and FOSH investments can act as public infrastructure for an entire economy. After that just fostering good education so that more people can leverage and improve on it and we might really see a Renaissance
After having finally migrated everything to azure and AWS, will we have to go back on premise ? 🫢
Sounds good to me. The plutocrats in my country need to be taken down a few notches, and I’m already looking for ways to spend as little as I can in US companies (except local small businesses).
This thing must have been done years ago, not after the reelection of Trump. Now, these big techs will try everything to weaken or destroy the EU.
These 100 companies are leaders in the IT space. High time to pool our resources and finally build ourselves a sovereign IT system.
