As a Dane, this has been frightening for years. I hope our government thinks of open source solutions, instead of just a european company over a US one.
As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.
Please feel free to help right now. You can still move to the EU if you want to but if you take for example NLNet they fund open source work for anybody anywhere in the World, you “just” have to propose something that is new and needed with a focus on the Internet.
I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.
As a Dane, this has been frightening for years. I hope our government thinks of open source solutions, instead of just a european company over a US one.
even this is an improvement
As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.
Please feel free to help right now. You can still move to the EU if you want to but if you take for example NLNet they fund open source work for anybody anywhere in the World, you “just” have to propose something that is new and needed with a focus on the Internet.
so… you’re the baddies?
I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.
it’s coming from a well known meme: “are we the baddies”.
You should look it up. It’s basically 2 Nazis wondering, and then realizing they are the baddies…
Mitchell and Webb.
“Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?”