Submitted 2 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-cuts-funding-support-for-free-software-projects/
If there are any French or Germans in particular reading this please share on your numerous native instances: If you are in the EU you need to contact policy makers (as outlined in the article) about this. I’m sorry I can’t be with you on this one but Brexit.
If there are any French or Germans in particular reading this please share on your native instances
They have lots of money for corporate software from Microsoft though.
The public to private theft is infinite
The money is needed for funding the police to implement chat control’s and going dark’s enforcement.
Even sadder:
The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside.
Very big brain moment aktschualluy. The AI will start maintaining all the dropped projects!
Oh, for fucks sake.
Well, they still can’t underfund gnu privacy guard :-) It’s pretty much already finished product and working pretty well.
Eh? I tried it about a year ago, and I found all the same clunky problems that were there 20 years ago.
Read about this on the site of the garage project. they apparently wouldn’t be a thing without this funding.
Recently set up a cluster and it’s great. Sad to hear this went through
Damn, rare technology L from the EU. Hopefully they walk back this decision.
Not rare, they’ve been trying to block encryption for a while unfortunately
Ouf, that a rough blow!
Yea. One of my project is funded through ngi currently 😭
I shudder to think what this will do for the development of kbin! Oh wait.
Weren’t there recently EU calls for using open source software due to concerns about proprietary software like Windows in the wake of gestures generally at Windows.
Yes, there are calls to move towards OOS, but as I assume that is it. Only calls. I remember cities moving onto open source and than thanks for lobbyists moving back to proprietary software again.
I remember cities moving onto open source and than thanks for lobbyists moving back to proprietary software again.
What you remember is the news cycle covering the City of Munich switching from Windows to Linux, then another news cycle about how they’re moving back to Windows.
What didn’t get much coverage though, is that Microsoft did a (suspected under-table) deal with the outgoing government to switch back to Windows if Microsoft built an office in Munich.
What then happened is the new government came in, looked at the situation, and cancelled it (although MS may have built that office always). Right now Munich is still using Linux and still actively rolling it out.
That’s stupid.
Is it as vague as “funds for AI” or cloud computing capacity to compete with China and the US? Because we could use that in the EU. I just don’t know who would be operating it. Universities?
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Also
Good old AI bubble strikes again.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a justification, they know full well it’s not some future revolution.
But it’s a very good device to hijack discourse and funds.
It seems obvious that people who get to the top are smart, just not in the good way. They know the potential of various technologies. If they don’t understand the subjects themselves, they have hundreds of experts willing to lecture them. Even if they pretend to not have understood a word, in fact they do gain knowledge.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah, after what happened to Greece it’s hard to forget how the EU is heavily infiltrated by the vultures of private finance.
Brickardo@feddit.nl 2 months ago
As long as public money -> public code, this could potentially be a net positive for stopping predatory AI practices from Microsoft and buddies.