Today is the day: The European Commission is expected to publish the EU Tech Sovereignty Package. 🇪🇺
And the demand is clear. When purchasing software products, European authorities must prioritize
- Open source
- Buy European
The Americans buy American, the Chinese buy Chinese, when will Europe start to support its own industry?
The EU Tech Sovereignty Package can be a turning point for #digital #sovereignty.
But will they be bold enough?
#OpenSourceFirst #DigitalSovereignty
NextGraph
in reply to Tuta • • •Live here:
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audiovisual.ec.europa.euJan Penfrat
in reply to Tuta • • •No no no, not Tuta falling into this trap as well. 😢
Do not "Buy European," that's useless at best and harmful at worst.
Buy tech that is ethical, gives you freedom, respects human rights and democracy, and isn't owned by fascist billionaires.
Otherwise we might just end up with European Google and European Palantir. (Which is what many politicians are actively working towards.)
Tuta
in reply to Jan Penfrat • • •David Ginn
in reply to Jan Penfrat • • •Jan Penfrat
in reply to David Ginn • • •@david I hear you, I really do. But I think the narrative that companies will better respect EU data protection (or any other) law because they're European (and more likely break it when they're not) is at best misleading.
Of course EU law applies to *all* companies active on the EU market, regardless of their HQ's location. And there are plenty of EU-based firms that routinely break #GDPR.
@Tutanota
Tuta
in reply to Jan Penfrat • • •kuro 🇪🇺🔏
in reply to Tuta • • •HumanBeing
in reply to Tuta • • •"Americans" (I'm not sure what that means at this time) are in a kleptocracy. We're just pawns.
But the good news is a much older sibling let me know how much she hates goo and AI (I told her about Mastodon). I had no clue she knew enough to hate both.
Brokar
in reply to Tuta • • •"The Americans buy American, the Chinese buy Chinese, when will Europe start to support its own industry?"
I was asking this for quite some time. But i guess it's easier to simply buy something from a predatory company than investing a little in something own.
I wish there was an EU Open Source fund which supports European developers - on a recurring basis - if their main daily work is maintaining the software.
We have good software in Europe, we're just not supporting it enough.
Lusogeek
in reply to Tuta • • •Cavallo Pazzo
in reply to Tuta • • •Bishop6 (Ed Alan T.)
in reply to Tuta • • •aptitude
in reply to Tuta • • •In more laymen's terms, the EU is more of a 'patchwork' of countries, loosely tied. Therefore, more singular momentum in prioritized root infrastructure, is equally aloof, compared to more singular entities like the US and China - even given the bipolar duopoly in the US.
It's a very low probability this will ever change - especially the too-many-polar axes of the EU.
Paul Sutton (zleap)
in reply to Tuta • • •Terefang74
in reply to Tuta • • •Growing up in the 1980s, I was taught that the European social-capitalist model offered a fair balance between capitalism and communism.
Our representative democracies have been both a strength and a weakness—providing stability, yet often struggling to preserve and implement the values on which the model was built.
Combined with globalization and the influence of powerful interests, this has contributed to the erosion of many of its achievements.
s1m0n4
in reply to Tuta • • •Manfred
in reply to Tuta • • •"The Americans buy American, the Chinese buy Chinese, when will Europe start to support its own industry?"
The Americans buy Asian products sold as American brands.
And is deglobalisation and more nationalism really the solution?
Harald
in reply to Tuta • • •xs4me2
in reply to Tuta • • •Naruto
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in reply to Tuta • • •Ryan Moore
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