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[โ€“] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

No Eurotechbro stuff, thanks.

European tech? Sure. But only if fully decentralised, peer to peer, FOSS, copyleft and all that.

And oh also, bars out fascists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then it has to be tax funded and will never be self sufficient unfortunately. That means if political winds change, these products will die.

This is just me being a realist. I would of course prefer all of Europe to move to FOSS for the public sector.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No. Standards might be tax funded and adherence to them enforced.

A market of resources (to provide services via standard way) is possible - standard format search, standard format service tracking, standard format storage service, and what not.

Only if they'd want that, of course. They literally say what they want - a Silicon Valley. With all the dystopian shit.

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