FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans
Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding 'incomprehensible,' says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello
Corporate lobby hates the idea of state funded open source
It will take a generation or two for the people to win this one
arent we more than a couple generations in at this point?
Takes about 3-4 generariom before society takes action.
Most people still don't know what open source is or why they would care when they can use their windows PC to surf Facebook with chrome...
Doesn’t help that the new parliament’s composition has a higher corporate bootlicker ratio
Europarliament is powerless, it can't even propose new laws
These parasites are well funded and organized.
It will get worse before it gets better
"NGI provided the seed funding for many of the leading (fediverse / activitypub) projects, such as ActivityPods, Bonfire, Castopod, Flarum, ForgeFed, Funkwhale, GNU social, Hubzilla, Indigenous, Kbin, Keyoxide, Lemmy, Mastodon, Mobilizon, Owncast, PeerTube, PixelDroid, Pixelfed, Pleroma and Xwiki. NGI also funded bridging mechanism for various communication protocols, such as XMPP, Matrix."
If you're reading this comment then you benefited from NGI funding. The full 85 page report is available here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/257ae66f-23c7-11ef-a195-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-324755022
I am strongly anti-violence but sometimes I think a bit of torture wouldn't be the worst means to remind politicians who they represent.
I dont know if people will stand behind you anymore after you torture them
I don't need them to be standing, in fact they won't be able to. Just do as I say.
Scnr
sure, but what if they didn't stand behind you before torture either? I'm not really into torture in general, but maybe this poster has tried all other options already
Thanks for buying into our plans, but it seems we won't actually be capable of delivering what we promised you. We will still be expecting you to deliver what we want from you, of course.
:( Website of NGI :
And they appear to have a fresh Mastodon account hosted by the EU :
This is standard anti democratic behavior from neoliberals. What did you expect?
Shame!
Money spent on FOSS employs locals, and helps with technology independence.
I guess this is the agenda of the new parliament? Does not look too bright besides Chat Control and Going Dark.
Does anyone with a greater knowledge of the mechanisms of the EU funding bodies know if I can do anything about this? For example, can I email my country's EU reprasentitve and present and argument for FOSS? Or is the funding decision here managed by a specifuc group within the EU that my representitive can have little influence on?
I'm not sure but there is an open letter that you could sign that could have some hints https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986638
The Eurocomission, which has most power in the EU, is a bureaucratic unelected structure. No chance.
Anyone else immediately get a migraine trying to read the first 2 paragraphs/sentences of that article?
Is it because oft the author using multiple clauses and multiple layers of context in the first two paragraphs?
If yes, then I understand why. I find myself making the same mistake quite often because my first language is German, which often uses clauses (at least it's more common than in english).
All communities should enable the summarizing bot https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutoTldrBot