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This has been growing on me very slowly, but very steadily over the decades: we really need to base the digital aspects of our society and our governments on Open Source, Free/Libre software. I don’t want to take away anyone‘s iPhone or PS5 or PC with Windows and Photoshop and Steam, that’s all fine.

But stuff like registering an appointment with my local Citizens Office, or the people at the Citizens Office workers writing a letter to some other government agency, or this other government agency storing said letter on a hard disk somewhere — this whole „digital operating system“ of a country and its people must work without any involvement of closed-source Microsoft, SAP, Apple, Google, AWS stuff being involved.

It was okay to depend on products of Big Corp back when Computers and Networks and Data where a small side quest to everyone‘s life.

But this stuff is now a fundamental building block of society.

Every line of this building block must be publicly available for everyone under a OSS license, period.

I‘m naively hopeful that stuff like the „Deutschlandstack“ is going to be tackled in all seriousness.

I pray that the EU ramps up investment in OSS projects into billions of Euros rather sooner than later.



Every non US country needs this now. Currently they have critical infrastructure that is controlled by a potential adversary.




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