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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 12:09:18 The @EUCommission has cut important funds for #FreeSoftware in a non-transparent decision. 💥 Raise your voice and take part in an ongoing consultation to ask for sustainable long-term funds for software freedom! |
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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 12:57:50 An utter stupidity… |
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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 13:46:08 Is software truly free, or at least independent, if it can't survive without state or corporate support? Just thinking aloud ... not sure of the answer yet. |
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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 13:53:53 @rzeta0 @fsfe @EUCommission I think it is less about maintaining than igniting innovation. As soon, e.g. Mastodon, becomes big enough to have its own network effect and sufficient (individual) backers it's easier to continue. But starting from the ground up? It takes years before that might happen, and in the end it might just fail because of lack of resources. That's what this programme, in my eyes, is for: pushing and jump starting promising projects, so they might surpass their threshold. |
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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 13:57:51 I think this is a good analysis. There will be categories of software which gov doesn't want to kick-start. The German gov, a influential power in the EU, would not want software that helps journalists and human rights groups hold Israel to account for its war crimes and genocide - for example. Hungary, currently a member of the EU, may discourage investment in software that helps support or protect people from some monitory groups. Italy - refugee safety, eg |
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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 14:43:06 @rzeta0 @fsfe @EUCommission are people mixing the concept of free beer with the price of making the free beer? |
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Föderation EN Mi 11.09.2024 21:29:05 @fsfe @EUCommission Hey EU Commission, you just collected 16 billion € in fines from Apple and Google, yet you cut 27 million € in funding for free and open source projects? I hope you reconsider your position and not even restore but also increase that funding |
