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Forcing global firms to leave is GOOD actually, but EU have essentially no domestic tech markets: most part of the ruling elite have no idea about IT and while
by kkfx 2y ago
Forcing global firms to leave is GOOD actually, but EU have essentially no domestic tech markets: most part of the ruling elite have no idea about IT and while they have made many wise choice in theory (eIDAS, e-billings, certified signed emails and so on) the implementation is obscene and mostly done on the shoulders of non-EU firms by not really competent local developers and the result is a practical MESS. All other the EU we almost have smart-card nfc IDs but using them is a pain because of crappy proprietary middlewaren and crapplications even more crappy on top, with public services designed by some mentally ill child with a keyboard. We have public accurate maps of the territory and no unified public way to access them, there is no public common conferencing decentralized/federated infra, some public body offer Big Blue Button or Jitsi meet based infra, others choose some USA private firm. Public money, public code is told everywhere but only told in most of the cases.
The sole way we can fill the gap is MANDATE FLOSS, publicly funding existing FLOSS projects and offering them all the infra through public universities and research bodies to create an EU-FLOSS ecosystem because that's the future we need, where once spread everywhere (desktops, smartphones, cars, domestic IoT etc) will allow private sector to pick and evolve individual ideas. This is the European way and we know it works, IF DONE. Unfortunately most fails to understand IT at all so it's not done, simply. As a result no digital sovereignty is possible on scale.