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   Bi—zaar (xavcc@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 00:32:37 JST Bi—zaar

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   "EU consultation confirms demand: long-term funding for Free Software is needed" by @fsfe

   https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20241113-01.en.html

   > The results of the interim evaluation were presented today, and they show that the FSFE’s call to action, based on our answers, was heard. Nearly 800 answers were received, —an unusually high number for such consultations. In the open-ended responses, participants highlighted Free Software as a vital component of Europe’s digital future

   Just some reminders:

   − Lettre Publique aux NCP au sujet de NGI https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/lettre-publique-aux-ncp-au-sujet-de-ngi/

   − The European Union must keep funding free software https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/european-union-must-keep-funding-free-software

   − ideal-ist.eu is set up for NCPs to contact us on

   − #OFFDEM with related #CFP https://oxygen.offdem.net/pub/call-for-presence

   cc @ps @APC @onepict @interhop @peertube @nlnet
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   #FLOSS #EU #Funding

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:51:50 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     • Demian

     @dgodon @XavCC Perhaps it is wishful thinking, but I'd like EU investment in the EU ecosystem and not aiming for VC funded Unicorns and Zebras.

     We know a sizable percent of those unicorns leave for the US.

     I want a more distributed digital EU market.

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     Demian (dgodon@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:51:51 JST Demian

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     @XavCC @fsfe @ps @APC @onepict @interhop @peertube @nlnet @cryptpad @Khrys @rysiek tax on big tech?

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:51:51 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     @dgodon @XavCC

     Any fine or tax is a drop in the ocean. I'd rather the EU committed to using and investing in FLOSS solutions and not pay the money to big tech in the first place.

     If nothing else for strategic reasons, mainly being most big tech is in the US. So perhaps on premises, or at least government EU hosted cloud.

     We've got trillion dollar companies now, it's past money. They've got the power to manipulate politics. They put a lot of money into lobbying our legislatures.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 21:56:23 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Demian

     @dgodon that's a "yes, and" thing. If it's a "tax Big Tech and earmark it all for FOSS", while that sounds good, it's a bad idea, as it creates an incentive for the FOSS ecosystem to help to grow Big Tech profits.

     More Big Tech profits, more tax money; more tax money, more funding for FOSS.

     So these have to be decoupled into two separate things:

     1. Serious financial support of FOSS by the EU (and the Member States).

     2. Independently, taxing Big Tech, as that's the right thing to do anyway.