Report from @OpenForumEurope @FraunhoferISI and European University Institute looks at how to scale up the German Sovereign Tech Agency to meet the EU's open source funding needs
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/EU-Sovereign-Tech-Fund-Gains-Traction?utm_source=mlm
#GitHub#OpenSource #funding #SovereignTechFund#FOSS
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
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In the last 12 months, I had 608 contributions on #Codeberg and 387 on #Github. Many other #FOSS contributors are like me. Github is not the de facto standard choice for code hosting anymore. Also people can login into Codeberg using their Github or Gitlab accounts. So think twice before deciding to host your next #opensource project on Github.
DataKnightmare
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Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
#EU#USA#corporateCapture #europeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #github#openSource#freeSoftware #tech #freedom#humanRights #democracy
Emanuele Cariati
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The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).
Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/
#EU#FOSS #freedom #tech #funding#EuropeanSovereignTechFund#corporateCapture#openWashing#BigTech #microsoft#GitHub
Konrad Hinsen
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Wix introduces the #OpenSource#Maintenance Fee.
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/8974
> To ensure the long-term #sustainability of this project, we are introducing an Open Source Maintenance Fee. This fee is required to be paid by all consumers of the #WiX Toolset project who generate revenue. You can pay via #GitHub#Sponsors.