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.
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We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund - The GitHub Blog
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.Felix Reda (The GitHub Blog)
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Anthony David
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •the last good thing I remember the EU doing for open source was funding pypy - must have been at least twenty years ago.
Microsoft need to butt out - too much American influence in tech already.
Walter van Holst
in reply to Steve Holden • • •NLnet; About NGI Zero
nlnet.nlAral Balkan
in reply to Walter van Holst • • •Oh, do tell me about ngi.
ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-a…
(That wasn’t even our first or last rejection. I just got tired of writing about it.)
NLnet Grant Application for Domain Rejected
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