I am really starting to loathe the “sovereignty” framing of open source sustainability, or data privacy, or whatever. It would be good to have a better tech community less beholden to the interests of multinational corporations, more globally distributed, etc, but when you have a problem and you think “I know what would make this better. Intense German, French, and English nationalism” now you have like… at least five problems
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in reply to Glyph • • •Amin Girasol
in reply to Glyph • • •that you for articulating that this "sovereignty" label is really a cover for a retreat into nationalism. Even terms like "sovereign European software" makes me deeply unconformable. Look how European leaders are upping the violent anti-immigration rhetoric and sabre-rattling against Russia. Europe is not going in a better direction than the US.
Any talk of worker solidarity between users and developers is being drowned by this new jingoistic framing.
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in reply to Amin Girasol • • •I am afraid "sovereignty" has become a business-world hype cycle word, like "digital transformation" was not long ago, but has lost its shine now. Vapid marketing words that indicate where the money is, and that *must* be used to win a pitch, esp. with gov institutions. The more the better.