The European Commission calls for input form Open-Source companies and actors

[breversa]

European Commission - Have your say

The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:

• a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness

• a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.

Should the E Foundation reply to that call?

Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/OS the deGoogled mobile OS and online services

[APSchmidt]

About time…

@breversa

Should the E Foundation reply to that call?

Shouldn’t they?

[HMZ]

Of course you should!

You are very experienced in FOSS and technological sovereignty. They’re not. So if they offer you the opportunity to bring your input into this important process - do it!

[obacht]

Are you asking on behalf of e-foundation?
Go for it

Or are you trying to promote this topic to the e-foundation?
You might want to get in touch directly or include @Manoj or else.

[Manoj]

I have already shared details with the management team. They would be taking it up further.

[breversa]

@obacht

Or are you trying to promote this topic to the e-foundation?

Yes, that was my idea.

Thank @Manoj for his action!

[swarfendor437]

This has been raised in the past in my country.

Our constituency MP ran a GNU/Linux company before becoming an elected representative and sat on a cross-party committee to look at implementing GNU/Linux in government. Nothing transpired and they became a Peer of the Realm (House of Lords = Senate).

All this hot air from self-serving politicians.

Additionally it should not be Open Software but Free Software as in Free Software Foundation. It would be better if /e/foundation carried out it’s own marketing strategy by promoting Fairphone mobiles with parental control. We all know how fast politicians work. And we all know that politicians don’t run this world, it’s big business/Military Industrial Complex. Let’s not forget IBM who sold Hollerith machines to the Nazis in the second world war for recording gold teeth extracted from Jewish concentration camp victims.

The danger from a GNU/Linux perspective is you will get large corporates within the GNU/Linux world pushing their way to the front who have always eyed themselves up to be the next Microsoft such as IBM/Red Hat. Red Hat has always aspired to removing /etc from GNU/Linux. Had this happened I would not have been able to get my Audigy sound card to work, nor my Surround sound system.

The GNU/Linux community has suffered enough with the imposition of systemd, pulse audio, snap and flatpak. Then we have Gnome who are also the next body acting like Microsoft pushing through Wayland and ignoring print-disabled users naming them “concerned trolls”.