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

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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] 89 points 2 months ago

Good.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago

Here comes Europe, Fuck Yeah. Here to save the motherfucking day yeah.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Several EU countries already have fascists or borderline faacists in the government (Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary) or have a raising fascist force grabbing for power (e.g. Germany, Sweden).

Don't expect too much from the EU. We might very well overtake you on the road to open fascist total control.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

As long as it's an OSI approved open fascist, then I'm on board

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile the EU probably pushes for the 100th time to backdoor all communication encryption backed by fascists and Spain trying to put down the Catalans...

And the UK doing the same thing and also a big surveillance state...

Sadly nowhere is great right now.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

(Joy, thou shining spark of God)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tochter aus Elyyyysium

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago

SEE!!! Trump is doing some good! It's about time the power was taken from these arrogant, invasive, Silicon Valley companies.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

But... This is a good thing. I will take it. More FOSS awareness is great news. As long as it sticks.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's not going to, though. As soon as the tariffs disapper they'll be impersonating Dory, again.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Not just software, but hardware too.

When each country can manufacturer everything they need because the hardware is all licensed openly, tarrifs aren't so devastating

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Can I say that the issue is much deeper than just tariffs, and that Europe should not be using anything cloud or AI based? Ideally not even from EU if not fully open-source or open-data.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

This is what I'm excited about. My parents are in the market for new laptops, I'm going to see if they will take a framework running popOS and make the switch to Linux. It's incredible that this option is now so approachable.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Mine are liking Mint quite a lot. They say they feel its easier to find stuff than windows.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If only every open source software didn’t lock enterprise features behind licenses….

Companies still have to fork 90% of useful Foss projects and not upstream changes because they need to reimplement HA features and SSO etc every time

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