Post #2706886

2026-02-08 08:59 UTC

@anttipeltola@mastodon.world exactly. It is also absurd how the public sector believes it is ok to pay hundreds of millions of euros to U.S. companies instead of probably spending a fraction of that money build their own solution based on existing open source code and open standard.

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@uint8_t@chaos.social 2026-02-08 09:44

@funambolo@mastodon.world @anttipeltola@mastodon.world „it’s not that simple! if it was so simple then why would they charge so much money for it??“ 😒

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@MixMistressAlice@ni.hil.ist 2026-02-09 10:17

@funambolo@mastodon.world @anttipeltola@mastodon.world And as the public sector is mainly financed through taxes taken from the workforce, it's a shame.

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@anzah@raphus.social 2026-02-09 19:48

@anttipeltola@mastodon.world @funambolo@mastodon.world Universities still do cool things in Finland. The Finnish space industry got a big boost from essentially an university project. Hopefully stuff like that still keeps happening.

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@krono@toot.berlin 2026-02-09 21:47

@funambolo@mastodon.world @anttipeltola@mastodon.world This is exactly what @zendis@social.bund.de is trying to do with https://www.opendesk.eu/en in Germany … and beyond; the ICC is to switch to openDesk, too: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/international-criminal-court-invests-open-infrastructure

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