"the Federal Trade Commission will in future be subject to the direction of the US President and will no longer act as an independent agency"

= end of 'safe-harbour'?

= another rationale to use EU-based IT only?

(btw, yesterday another german federal state decided to end microsoft-dependency)

Strengthening digital autonomy through open source

Europe is home to over three million open-source contributors. They deliver digital solutions made in Europe, for Europe, based on European principles and values.

The Open Source Strategy builds on this strength to develop and provide more sovereign solutions. It will scale up open source alternatives in priority areas (...) promote a stronger open source ecosystem by investing in skills, supporting open source start-ups, and improving the long-term maintenance and security of Europe's open-source digital infrastructure.

The strategy will also support greater use of open source in public administrations through procurement guidelines and practical best practice. It will encourage uptake of European solutions and support standards and interoperability, including through initiatives such as the Open Internet Stack.

overview

investment: around 1 Billion Euros next 7 years. (source: heise)

key areas:

(...)

• Making public administrations anchor users and contributors to open source, through procurement guidance, open-source friendly tendering, strengthening the Open Source Programme Office and its networks, reusable public digital assets and by embedding openness and sovereignty in digital investment decisions
• Supporting the development of new open source building blocks in critical technology areas, including operating systems, cloud and edge, AI, cybersecurity, software development infrastructure, semiconductors and future internet architectures
• Ensuring the long-term maintenance, security and sustainability of critical open source components, notably through stewardship, an EU assessment framework, dependency analysis and an Open Source Maintenance Instrument
• Improving skills for working with open technologies, including support for open source development and contributor mobility through programmes such as the Erasmus+ Programme 2027

-> what is planned exactly? anyone with more specific information?

what is the current state of this? if this is unchanged: are there other formats to protest against this?

could the EU-Digital-Markets-Act help here? f.e. is there anything coming from EU comparable to this? Or something like an European Citizen Initiative? (german news)