The European Commission is preparing a strategy to boost open-source technology and achieve technological sovereignty by reducing dependence on proprietary technology.

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    FOSS just seems like such a fucking no-brainer for governments. Increase their own security, sovereignty, and affordability, while improving life and affordability for the general public, around the world even. It’s a damn shame they aren’t already heavily invested in it.

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    2 hours ago

    I know for a fact that Windows 11 out of the box is incompatible with GDPR and my country’s privacy laws by default, and most certainly with the very tough requirements we have on dealing with patient information secrecy. Yet it is an almost ubiquitous OS for government employees. As an IT specialist it is highly disconcerting.

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    ‘Open souce’ is a deliberately misleading phrase engineered to scam us out of libre software, control over our own computing.

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    I am always baffeled when i see people working on sensetive infrastructure projects, use Windows and One Drive on their workstations. Especially when they have a bunch of other security prosocols and procedures is place.

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    6 hours ago

    Good, maybe this will keep business for forcing me to use Facebook in place of an actual website.