Europe Pub (PieFed)European Open Digital Ecosystems: Have your say
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-yo…
The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:
- a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
- a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.
Feedback period: 06 January 2026 - 03 February 2026 (midnight Brussels time)
As Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, wrote in his post (highly recommended read) as feedback to the European Commission’s call for evidence:
Europe does not need to build the next hyperscaler. It needs to shift procurement toward Open Source builders and maintainers. If Europe gets this right, it will mean better software, stronger local vendors, and public money that actually builds public code. Not to mention the autonomy that comes with it.
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We need a open source social media which is definately not like X
From the PDF, one of the EU’s concerns is:
However, much of the value generated by open-source projects is exploited outside the EU, often benefiting tech giants.
When tech giants use FOSS, it’s a shame they can extract wealth without compensating the contributors. OTOH, if the baddies become dependent on FOSS, that’s favorable anyway. It means they might contribute code to the projects which otherwise would not happen.
The PDF does not cover public schools specifically. They need to be told that public schools are the most important place to deploy FOSS. Consider a university in Denmark pushes commercial software on students (sadly, they provide that software on a campus webpage improperly titled “Free Software” b/c it is gratis for students). The damage is of course that Denmark educates people to be dependent or clung-onto closed-source software like MATLAB, not GNU Octave. That negative training means the young generations are being conditioned to favor non-free software.
FSFE does not know about this?
The FSFE has a newsletter for “public money → public code”. They have not mentioned this /have your say/ page. Strange.
Downvotes?
I get why the OP was downvoted here.. this is a bit off-topic for BuyFromEU. But !ETS@europe.pub has 4 silent down votes. WTF? I’ve seen that before. ETS seems to be heavily read by opponents of ETS.
Ironic that it makes you create an account prior to giving feedback on open digital systems.