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Why not support OpenSuse instead of starting from scratch? Mature, EU based, enterprise ready... it checks all the boxes IMHO.
Don't confuse honest technical motivations with "technical motivations" here. Starting new projects to grab EU funding is a lot more profitable for the individual companies that get to take part in them. Especially when failure is an option in the end.
I'm not saying that's the case, but I have experienced one or two EU funded project here and there that didn't really make efforts to make the jump into a market viable product in the end.
I don't think there's any clear path for the petitioner here to land such a deal if the proposal was accepted, it's just a very short petition urging development of an EU linux distro?
This is surely more about packaging of apps on top of something that exists rather than creating something new. A huge bonus would however be a way to pay open source developers working on the tools deemed necessary to include in such a distribution.
It would have to be more than that. If it's supposed to be backed by EU there would have to be an agency responsible for it's development and security. The moniker "EU certified" would require some sort of code evaluation and certification agency. As such it would become rather powerful.
I think it's a good idea, the OS would give the market a focus and allow for a collected development effort without excluding anyone active today from participating. Kinda like what I think Android was, without the risk of lock-in as it would be government funded.
The big question is if this would be within the current EU mandate, though.
Most probably it will be based on the existing Linux distribution like openSUSE, anyway, do I don't see anything wrong with that approach.
Hannah Montana
Not even my distro of choice and I thought the exact same thing.
Makes more sense to me to do exactly that.
And on the side, do something like Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund to support other FOSS projects.
yeah there will still be support/infra businesses needed to keep digital governance going just a matter of which is better value
i do think policies should be biassed towards open software/processes/protocols that can run on any platform
the focus should be on Public Money Public Code and reducing the dependence on foreign systems, not the branding or type of kernel. we could run OpenIndiana for all i care, as long as my tax money and PII doesn't go into Azure.
I'd prefer to call it EU+Linux. Linux is made possible by EU and wouldn't be useful without it
LinEUx?
EUnix?
eUnix
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Would be lovely if i could use my already existing EUID Account to vote there. But no, of course you need another separat account. For something from the same organisation that runs on the same domain ..
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