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It's a regulated market economy. Someone has to actually make the product. They can't force someone to make a product. There's MNT in the EU.
by inigyou 3mo ago
It's a regulated market economy. Someone has to actually make the product. They can't force someone to make a product.
There's MNT in the EU.
- cmeacham98 3mo agoWhile the EU and its member countries can't (or at least morally shouldn't) force people to make the product, if it was a priority they could incentivise it with funding, tax breaks, etc.
- inigyou 3mo agoNLnet funds a lot of things, few of which get very popular. It keeps a lot of FOSS gears turning but it's not making the next iPhone.
- p0w3n3d 3mo agoThey can make the product according to rules that are imposed on them. One rule: allow privacy. Unless the privacy is not in the field of interest of both the producer and the EU
- toymin 3mo agoThey could give more funding to SailfishOS, for example
- inigyou 3mo agoSailfish would have to ask for it. Possibly via NLnet. Have they? And they need a plan to spend it.
- mosura 3mo agoDo what the Chinese did and fork Android. The EU has enough tech talent to do it, but the political and managerial class lack both the strategic ability or the willingness to adequately reward the effort it would take, almost certainly preferring to, again, outsource the concern, and then be shocked Pikachu later. Anyone doubting this should see how BMW think about their in car software. And that is for a supposedly premium product.
- inigyou 3mo agoThere's GrapheneOS. It's Canadian, not European. I'm not sure where LineageOS is from. BMW isn't the EU government. Like I said, someone has to actually do it. BMW Actually Did It in a really user hostile way, and that's the best we have. Why is nobody Actually Doing It but good? Or why aren't we buying MNT products?
- mosura 3mo agoBMW behaviour is perfectly representative of the EU mentality. As is your comment. It is basically “someone else should do this properly and I will take the benefits” but not actually willing to put up the hard bit themselves.
- inigyou 3mo agoI'm talking about the government of the EU. You seem to be talking about all the countries and the people in the countries.
- drdexebtjl 3mo agoThey can’t force someone to make a product, but they can force someone to choose between making a product or exiting the EU market. In practice they’re the same thing.