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#Microsoft's 15% price increase on #On-Prem products is a reminder: #VendorLockIn is real, and costly.
New licensing and pricing changes for on-premises…
TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COMHaving Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.
#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #corporateCapture #openSource #freeSoftware #FOSS #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #EU
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.
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/
#EU #FOSS #freedom #tech #funding #EuropeanSovereignTechFund #corporateCapture #openWashing #BigTech #microsoft #GitHub
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy…
The GitHub Blog#BigTech’s “#SovereignCloud” promises just collapsed — in their own words
https://nextcloud.com/blog/big-techs-sovereign-cloud-promises-just-collapsed-in-their-own-words/
In the past weeks, the "sovereign cloud" narrative…
NextcloudA voluntary "FOSS subscription"
...for open tools and services that are useful to me.
I'm doing this since summer 2024.
Each project gets paid at least 5€ per month.
Let's take the monthly recurring revenue model of MS365 as an example but fund projects, that won't sell your data
I believe in monthly payments so the projects have a stable budget to operate with.
The list includes now:
- KDE (desktop on two devices, 10€)
- Thunderbird
- 🛜 Signal
Joined today by:
- social.tchncs.de
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Thanks for hosting this platform @milan
#opensource #supportYourInstance #supportYourAdmin #donate #fundFoss #foss #kde #signal #thunderbird #bigtech #privacy
"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access"
"The Senate hearing exposed tensions between sovereignty rhetoric and practical implementation. While French officials promote digital independence, procurement decisions consistently favor non-European solutions for critical infrastructure projects."
https://ppc.land/microsoft-cant-protect-french-data-from-us-government-access/
Where have we seen this before? Oh yes on our own university: https://opentech-auc.org/posts/2025-04-15-official-launch-of-nextcloud/
Company admits under oath that American authorities…
PPC LandLast night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.
This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.
Plus much more!
Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io
#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech
Guy next to me at the cafe I’m working out of this morning gets a call:
“… no we don’t live there anymore… no… no, we don’t live there anymore… are you serious?! [my ears perk up] Is this AI?… It is?!”
Spoke to him afterwards. Apparently “some energy company.” And it was an LLM on the other side. He said it sounded so real (a woman who gave him her name and sounded perfectly normal) until he asked it if it was AI when it responded “yes” and then restarted the script.
*smdh*
Motivation is a big factor, and I'm reminded of that whenever we onboard new people. They almost always remark about how inspired and passionate people at #Nextcloud are. Yes, we have a mission - to protect people from #BigTech - just think of the latest #WeTransfer controversy, and how many days has it been since Facebook screwed up? Privacy truly matters! And it drives us.
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.
The way VC works:
1. You get VC
2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast)
3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)
(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)
“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI”
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/707442/grok-antisemitic-hitler-elon-musk-opinion-reprogrammed
Anyone remember the days when we actually had a bar? Or at least pretended there was one, no matter how low? I miss those days.
After a string of controversies involving antisemitism,…
The Verge“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/114860155869573459
"Because electricity is more costly for data centers…
MastodonSo while @EUCommission is slowly realizing its dependence on US #BigTech and debating #DigitalSovereignty it's also pushing a solution for #ageVerification which forces #EU citizens further into the iOS/Google Play duopoly. Even while browsing the #web on the desktop.
Interview: "Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide"
"Israel is known as a startup nation. And the tech part of Israel's economy is central to why the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has boomed since the October 7th attacks."
Francesca Albanese explains the “economy of genocide", ie, how "major corporations have been profiting off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza & its occupation in the West Bank."
https://zeteo.com/p/israels-tech-boom-and-the-economy
#USPol #EuroPol #EconomyOfGenocide #BigTech #SettlerColonialism @palestine .
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi…
Zeteo@va2lam Yeah, the fact that others have now caught up - or found new flavours of evil - doesn't make the original evil any less so. The world would be better for the lack of all of #BigTech. @billbennett @joncounts @bigblen @bananabob @podsrover
A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by…
Geneva Solutions“Let them eat bullshit”
– Mark Zuckerberg, probably
#AI #habitatLoss #resourceDepletion #BigTech #bullshit #billionaires #psychopaths #corporatocracy https://mstdn.ca/@dyckron/114826577384956747
'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data…
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