Tough shit, you supported the MAGA movement and Europe, thankfully, reacted accordingly. Simply put, the good folks in the EU lost faith in the USA.
Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
Submitted 1 month ago by inari@piefed.zip to technology@lemmy.world
https://pplware.sapo.pt/google/google-critica-o-plano-da-europa-para-adotar-software-livre/
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Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
daychilde@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The good folks in the USA have lost faith in the USA. Alas, the bad folks remain in power. heh
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
How DARE they try to ELIMINATE our Services after ALL the MONEY we Poured in Donald Trump’s POCKETS!
Concur6053@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Probably the most resounding endorsement they could hope for
sonofearth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aaahh it hurts our business…. please don’t…. we can’t collect data now aaahhhh…. open source = communism = economic losss aahhhhhh…. why are you being anti competitive grrrrrrrr….
WhisperingEye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh no! Big evil company doesn’t like Europe is realizing they need alternatives? Shocker!
Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think google is the right source talking competitiveness on this matter…
rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 1 month ago
It means we’re doing something right.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
Eat shit Google
Lanske@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And die Google!
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YSK that this is a) ragebait farming you for ad revenue and b) disinformation.
In the FT article referenced, there is no mention of open source.
Neither on his LI, which has a free access link to the FT article: linkedin.com/…/kent-walker-5963bb198_google-warns…
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m going to throw that accusation of disinformation right back at you. He’s careful not to use the words “open source” verbatim, but it’s very clear what he’s talking about.
Every detail of the article is a fair summary of what he said, and you’re trying to pettifog over a string match.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is that clickfarm your moneymaker? jfc
arcine@jlai.lu 1 month ago
According to the Financial Times, he said that creating regulatory barriers would be harmful in a context of rapid technological advancement.
Are we on a context of rapid technological advancement ? I would say we are in a context of dire technological stagnation.
«AI» is a mirage that is utterly failing at pretty much everything it is applied to, and in every other domain I would say tech progress is coming to a halt now that our new feudal lords have conquered so much of the market.
This push by the EU is, apart from digital sovereignty, a very necessary push to get some innovation going again. I hope more complementary measures will follow ; we really need hardware sovereignty as well.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It probably refers to advances in AI-driven surveillance on behalf of the US Government.
ImitationLimitation@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
🖕🏻
pyre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness.
Google’s competitiveness only.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The irony is that Google uses FOSS software in a huge way since its founding.
Free and Open Source Software for me, but not for thee, Europe.
Fuck Google’s hypocrisy. And fuck Google/Alphabet.
tomiant@piefed.social 1 month ago
Photonic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is good. It means that the efforts are working and Google is getting nervous. Let them get nervous and let’s give them a lot more to be nervous about.
MattGade@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuck Google
green_goglin@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Fuck Alphabet, forever
hector@lemmy.today 1 month ago
What a preposterous argument google is making. Yes it stifles innovation having open source software and not licensing it from the soul-less mega corporation with the US government willing to break kneecaps for it (if they pay up,) that we know helps the US steal information, and themselves steals every big of information they can get their grasping hands on, both legally and illegally.
Yes Europe wouldn’t have the best tools, if they weren’t beholden to a mega corporation that could use the out of control drunk with power US to back up their market interests! Talk about an incredible argument. We will see, I bet europe caves to US pressure, as they did all last year, and just goes along with tech plans to bring the trojan horses of chatcontrol and age checks inside the walls of liberal democracies, to ultimately make secret social scores to determine every part of how a person is treated from business to government. Those decisions made by the worst people in the world like Palantir in cooperation with politicians.
As to keeping data in europe so the us couldn’t access it, ha. What were you born yesterday? Google is beholden to the US that can make or break them in a thousand million ways. They will find a way, (they already have,) to grab all the data, stored in europe or whereever. You know it, same way we knew before snowden the feds were grabbing everything they could get their grasping hands on.
Because who is going to stop them?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
“Buy my shovel! Don’t buy that other guys shovel!” Ah, capitalism, you crazy old whore.
tabular@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What innovation, Google? Like threatening all Android devs?
MOARbid1@piefed.social 1 month ago
Google IS innovating! What other company do you know that is able to kill off their products as fast as Google!? Truly innovative!
ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Ooooo, someone’s getting worried!
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Was about to comment: it’s afraid!
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 month ago
Google telling the EU that the EU needs Google feels a lot like Cops investigating themselves and finding that they did nothing wrong.
Itwasntme223@discuss.online 1 month ago
Google is secretly panicking cause they lost an entire nation bloc. That’s gotta hurt the pocket book somewhere.
melfie@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Why would anyone want €100 billion in economic growth from open source investments when you can give the CIA all your data and gain access to innovative new ways to generate AI slop?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
could stifle innovation
What is there to innovate? It’s just email and cloud storage. It’s not like these governments use Google’s latest AI tools. Google hasn’t done shit to innovate Gmail and Google Drive in the last 15 years. And Google’s Trojan horse called Chrome has actually stifled the internet. Google now has way too much power over browser standards and thus how the web should work.
tb_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only thing corporations like Google “innovate” on is wealth extraction.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 month ago
Open Source software is in many cases better than commercial software. Consider Linux / Windows.
HrabiaVulpes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I second that. I was initially skeptical about switching to Linux Mint, but every game in my Steam library works perfectly the same as on Windows.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Valve has moved mountains to push gaming to the point where it’s enjoyable in linux (except for kernel-level anticheat).
Canonical has been a driving force in dispelling the urban myth that linux is command-line only.
Other areas might not be so easy: AutoCAD is still king and GIMP never gained traction over Photoshop (Blender, on the other hand, won awards).
Microslop keeps shooting itself in the foot requiring TPM-only devices to run Windows 11.TL;DR: YMMV, but it’s looking good.
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lol. lmao, even.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I hope that Europe offers a grant to developers who make open-source software. Stuff like Matrix, Fluxer, Lemmy, and so on. Making the development of such software into a paying job will accelerate the OSS scene and give Europe more viable options.
mayabuttreeks@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
What happened to: “Google ❤️ open source”
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They love appropriating it, not when people use it to kick their evil asses to the curb
hector@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I think it’s buried the same place they put the do no evil slogan. No body no crime as they say.
mjr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Sacrificed on the profit altar, it would seem.