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Not for the EU. For the EU it just means that the company that makes it is located within the EU.
by preisschild 3y ago
Not for the EU. For the EU it just means that the company that makes it is located within the EU.
- _ache_ 3y agoPolitics are playing politics. Also, the EU is pretty liberal and US big tech company are lobbying a lot against FOSS. Politics don't understand free software, and the people who should be teaching it (GAFAM) don't, because it's not in their interest. As a liberal, free software worth nothing. Big tech worth a lot. They don't understand that's about tools and know-how, not about human resources and money.
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder how open source works in that framework. I wonder if “we make the device, but use an open source library, we didn’t develop it, but could at least fork and maintain operations if we needed” is acceptable.
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- ska 3y agoI've seen this argument work in other contexts (along with a detailed plan for what "taking over" would look like)
- personomas 3y agoNo, even worse, it means the EU has some sort of leverage on it or control over the company or entity.