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> €2 billion over seven years to fund alternatives to proprietary software
by blitzar 3mo ago
> €2 billion over seven years to fund alternatives to proprietary software
- realusername 3mo agoI'll believe it when I'll see it, for now I haven't seen any of the Android forks (LineageOS, EOS, GrapheneOS...) or Linux OS (Phosh, Plasma mobile, Ubports, ...) get any funds from the EU.
- blitzar 3mo agoYou will see it when you look.
- jampekka 3mo agoFor context, as yearly spending of 285 million €, that compares to building roughly 20 km of motorway, or 0.5% of EU's agriculture subsidies, or half what the German federal government pays Microsoft per year. Edit: 2000m/7 is 285m, not 466m.
- blitzar 3mo ago> if they just spent a little, maybe as much as a couple of million it would make a huge difference, but they refuse to ... they do. > 250 million isn't much ... sigh.