misspelledusernme

When I followed the development and passing of the DSA/DMA I always envisioned that it would cause American big tech to leave the EU and a new stack would emerge from the European open source ecosystem. The EU, member states, and local governments have also been funding open source projects to this end (Next Generation internet, NGI).

I was a bit optimistic about the speed. I remember telling my family that the interoperability requirement of chat services would demolish the big tech hemegony by the end of the decade.

I don’t think this will happen that quickly anymore. But what the author describes as a shifting of the focus towards the creation of a “eurostack”, I would describe as the natural and intentional consequence of regulating big tech into respecting European civil rights.

Overall I’m still pretty optimistic of the growth of european open source projects replacing US big tech.

You can edit PDFs on libre?

I’m a bit confused. The case seems to be about sexual harassment and unpaid wages. The part about selling pardons doesn’t seem relevant to that. To my understanding it’s not illegal to sell pardons, it’s just highly unethical and corrupt.