Europe's New Tech Strategy Puts Open Source Front and Centre
13 hours ago
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- The European Commission released a technological sovereignty strategy emphasizing open source software for digital independence.
- Europe currently relies on non-EU providers for over 80% of critical digital infrastructure, highlighting a dependency issue.
- Open source solutions offer transparency, auditable code, enhanced security, and help break proprietary system lock-in.
- The strategy includes building alternatives to non-EU platforms, supporting open source communities and developers, and promoting open standards.
- The Commission specifically supports decentralized social media like Mastodon, hosting an instance via Managed Hosting at ec.social-network.europa.eu.
- The EU's approach validates decentralized, community-driven technology as key to genuine sovereignty, aligning openness with independence.