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   Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 01:07:10 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

   • NGI Zero open source funding

   At a time when The EU is seeking to cut FOSS funding to funds like @NGIZero

   Perhaps we need to ask the EU to fund smaller, more communal projects, rather than seeking to create Unicorns.

   "The report highlighted how 30% of EU startup businesses that had grown to be valued at more than €1bn – known as unicorns – had moved abroad, and mostly to list on stock markets in the US."

   https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/eu-mario-draghi-report-spending-boost

   #FossSustainability #NGI

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 01:07:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @onepict @NGIZero Literally what I told them to their faces at the parliament (for all the good it did):

     https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

     Also: https://ar.al/2019/06/22/have-you-heard-about-silicon-valleys-unpaid-research-and-development-department-its-called-the-eu/

     So, yes, this, 💯

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 01:34:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @onepict @NGIZero One can hope.

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 01:34:12 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     • Aral Balkan
     • NGI Zero open source funding

     @aral @NGIZero Perhaps they might listen with Draghi saying it.

     😏

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 04:36:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     @InsertUser @onepict @NGIZero It can amend it (and the council can choose to reject the amendments) as well as approve or reject it over several readings/back-and-forths.

     What it cannot do is – and what essentially renders it somewhat of a toy parliament compared to other parliaments – is to propose new legislation.

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     InsertUser (insertuser@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 04:36:44 JST InsertUser

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     @aral @onepict @NGIZero

     Can the EU parliament even amend the legislation it's considering?

     I was under the impression that it can only approve or reject whatever the Commission hands it.

     If the Commission are the only ones that get a say in the wording they are the ones that need to be convinced.