Corporate lobby hates the idea of state funded open source
It will take a generation or two for the people to win this one
Doesn’t help that the new parliament’s composition has a higher corporate bootlicker ratio
arent we more than a couple generations in at this point?
Takes about 3-4 generariom before society takes action.
Most people still don’t know what open source is or why they would care when they can use their windows PC to surf Facebook with chrome…
I am strongly anti-violence but sometimes I think a bit of torture wouldn’t be the worst means to remind politicians who they represent.
“NGI provided the seed funding for many of the leading (fediverse / activitypub) projects, such as ActivityPods, Bonfire, Castopod, Flarum, ForgeFed, Funkwhale, GNU social, Hubzilla, Indigenous, Kbin, Keyoxide, Lemmy, Mastodon, Mobilizon, Owncast, PeerTube, PixelDroid, Pixelfed, Pleroma and Xwiki. NGI also funded bridging mechanism for various communication protocols, such as XMPP, Matrix.”
If you’re reading this comment then you benefited from NGI funding. The full 85 page report is available here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/257ae66f-23c7-11ef-a195-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-324755022
Shame!
Money spent on FOSS employs locals, and helps with technology independence.
Does anyone with a greater knowledge of the mechanisms of the EU funding bodies know if I can do anything about this? For example, can I email my country’s EU reprasentitve and present and argument for FOSS? Or is the funding decision here managed by a specifuc group within the EU that my representitive can have little influence on?
The Eurocomission, which has most power in the EU, is a bureaucratic unelected structure. No chance.
EU is a total shitshow. It has been for years, but lately we really suffer from this stupid bureaucracy. Paper straws, attached bottle caps, not to mention billions they mindlessly pour into the slugfest in Ukraine.
@mihor oh oh, someone drank too much russian kool-aid
