whats wrong with GPL and BSD?
Nothing, but there are more choices.
The Dutch government won’t use GPL and BSD, but will and does use the EUPL
What’s the deal with confusing Open Source with Free Software Licences. It literaly says it in the wiki, this is a Free Software Licence not Open Source. Stop trying to change the meaning of things. I cannot believe google won with their Open Source washing and now everybody thinks Free Software is Open Source.
They have completely different meanings in every aspect. Please stop falling for the Open Source washing term that corpos like so much and learn to differentiate them.
At this point I’m starting to worry that all this push to distance Europe from America will eventually strengthen some “European Nationalism” or something along that line and we’ll be right back to the same problems in a few decades, just switching sides once more.
This is not new though. The EUPL have existed for almost two decades.
If it’s done with opensource and opendata, decoupling won’t be a problem. In fact, it might even give the EU less leverage. They can threaten to stop supporting or developing an opensource project or providing open data, but any other nation or group can decide to continue.
That’s why I’m also always trying to push the benefits of open data/source/etc onto my employers. It sometimes works too.
It’s up to us as individuals to also make a fuss about this stuff here in EU. I love EU but I’m not blindly trusting every corpo that’s from EU.
Choose local (in our case European/EU), but not blindly and naively.
Europeanism, it’s not one nation.
Which is fine. Europe is a world leader on globalism. Our -ism is about being proud of that.
That can still become very problematic though. Nationalists usually lean heavily on western culture and white supremacy, something Europe has plenty of. It’s inevitable that the alt right will have a growing presence and influence in the EU parliament as they grow in each member state.
assholes like that will always find an excuse, no matter what. they don’t own the concepts of pride and joy in one’s home/culture. they just twist good things to serve their sick ends.
Not too worried. Europe is a great mix of countries with lots of diversity.
Welcome to the concept of human history.
That said, this isn’t particlarly new, or even that meaningful, and Europe has a LOT of US decoupling to do whether it wants to for nationalistic reasons or not. And a lot of integration, too, so they’re a good ways away from having enough of a shared sense of identity for that to be a concern.
Your grandkids can cross that bridge when they get to it, if there are any bridges left to be crossed or grandkids to cross them.
