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They could try and put money into funding Jolla/sailfish/whatever
by mghackerlady 3mo ago
They could try and put money into funding Jolla/sailfish/whatever
- tokai 3mo agoThat wont help anything. Then you are just force to use Android, iOS, or Sailfish. It need to be a platform agnostic thing, else you're just hitching the fulcrum of civil society on private company.
- izacus 3mo agoPrivate companies providing public services is really not a rare thing.
- pessimizer 3mo agoWho do you think said it was?
- roundabout-host 3mo agoExactly. The app is only inclusive if it is accessible over a standard protocol (Web) without "attestation", so that it works for any platform. If I release a GNU/Linux distribution tomorrow, I should be able to use the app on it with only some work on my part.
- pjmlp 3mo agoYou mean ChromeOS Platform.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoI don't disagree, but the eu needs their own mobile OS alternative in general so if they absolutely need to rely on a private company, it isn't an american one
- account42 3mo agoThis doesn't follow. Why is public infrastructure no longer a possibility as soon as computers get involved? We aren't talking about cutting edge innovation here anymore, mobile phones are boring standard devices.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoIt is a possibility, just not one I see as likely to happen. Could the EU fund a public phone company? Probably. Will it happen? Most likely not