Post #4309997

In 2020 the EU's open-source strategy was an internal memo about the Commission's own code. Today's wants Europe to build open alternatives to US proprietary software, and treat them as industrial policy. Good, and long overdue. But it's non-binding, and ~€2B over 7 years is a rounding error next to the ~€264B Europe spends on proprietary software every year. The lever it keeps ignoring is its own procurement budget. https://vikunja.io/changelog/eu-open-source-budget-is-the-policy/