Europe's New Tech Strategy Puts Open Source Front and Centre

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The European Commission has just released a major strategy on technological sovereignty, and it’s placing open source software squarely in the spotlight. The message is clear: open source is key to true digital independence.

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From the Strategy document:

Strengthen the open source social media space by supporting open and decentralised social media solutions and platforms. The Commission currently runs a Mastodon instance, which hosts the Commission’s presence and plans to extend the users basis to EU

institutions.

EDIT: EU Commission just launched a new digital-tech account: @digitaleu@ec.social-network.europa.eu

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I’m here for it. Open source and open standards. Reject lock-in.

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Europe or the EU? Because I’d say Sweden is ostensibly in Europe but our government is doing the complete opposite. We’re like “ooh yesss Trumpy fuck us harder.”

I hate our leaders.

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As someone else mentioned[1] on Mastodon, open source is under threat due to AI - which the EU is also implementing[2].

1: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jpl99/116686830524918420

2: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116686960335861976

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