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The EU should just invest in FOSS protectionism - money for FOSS if you work in the EU. Ban Microsoft and Oracle from public procurement, and invest the money
by nivenkos 5y ago
The EU should just invest in FOSS protectionism - money for FOSS if you work in the EU.
Ban Microsoft and Oracle from public procurement, and invest the money in Europe.
We have no Tech industry and pitiful wages because we've bowed down to this US colonisation for decades via neoliberal policies.
- npteljes 5y agoI can't agree more. I find it nonsense that EU governments and offices depend on an non-EU entity so much. FOSS alternatives could be forked, improved and maintained from EU money, public entities could use that by default, and they could also be taught in schools as the de-facto office standard, instead of the currently entrenched Microsoft stuff. This way EU would pay developers, advisors, teachers from Europe to create, maintain and teach software that actually supports independence from foreign powers and instead cultivates its own software culture.