Corporate lobby hates the idea of state funded open source
It will take a generation or two for the people to win this one
arent we more than a couple generations in at this point?
Takes about 3-4 generariom before society takes action.
Most people still don’t know what open source is or why they would care when they can use their windows PC to surf Facebook with chrome…
Doesn’t help that the new parliament’s composition has a higher corporate bootlicker ratio
Europarliament is powerless, it can’t even propose new laws
These parasites are well funded and organized.
It will get worse before it gets better
I am strongly anti-violence but sometimes I think a bit of torture wouldn’t be the worst means to remind politicians who they represent.
:( Website of NGI :
And they appear to have a fresh Mastodon account hosted by the EU :
Shame!
Money spent on FOSS employs locals, and helps with technology independence.
Does anyone with a greater knowledge of the mechanisms of the EU funding bodies know if I can do anything about this? For example, can I email my country’s EU reprasentitve and present and argument for FOSS? Or is the funding decision here managed by a specifuc group within the EU that my representitive can have little influence on?
I’m not sure but there is an open letter that you could sign that could have some hints https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986638
The Eurocomission, which has most power in the EU, is a bureaucratic unelected structure. No chance.
EU is a total shitshow. It has been for years, but lately we really suffer from this stupid bureaucracy. Paper straws, attached bottle caps, not to mention billions they mindlessly pour into the slugfest in Ukraine.
Anyone else immediately get a migraine trying to read the first 2 paragraphs/sentences of that article?
