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Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source (news.opensuse.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The European Commission sees open-source software as more than an IT tool. Policy makers are encouraging open-source ecosystems to drive innovation, autonomy and collaboration in a world where global trade is being redrawn.

This trade dispute highlights something most open-source advocates have known for years: open source is freedom. It’s freedom from monopolies, freedom from arbitrary pricing, and freedom from foreign influence.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Throw something like Mint on their old laptops and they may not need new ones at all!

Unless they don’t have current ones, then ignore me, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hey, that's a good point!

I think they're keen to buy something new, so my main excitement is hey look a shop where you can start with Linux in the first place.

But I could also end up showing them how to repurpose their current laptops as media servers or something, which would be cool!