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@neil i've written some pieces about this in norwegian, from the perspective of a state's digital sovereignty and free software as a component to contribute to more digital sovereignty, i.e. more own control -- and less of others' control -- on the state's digital infra. and that is a spectrum.

the entire country of norway runs on #microslop, and a lot runs in the "cloud", so there's a lot to do.

but costs and knowledge and costs to obtain and maintain knowledge are there.

Mar 19 at 7:00amWeb
Show threadChaddicusMar 19
@km @neil given Norway's recent advertisement campaign against enshittification, do you think its dependency on microslop may be changing?
Show threadadvokattMar 19
@wombatpandaa @neil maybe not replacing #microslop entirely, but introducing some more diversity. i often hear people discussion e.g. #nextcloud. so there's hope
Show threadPaul WalkerMar 20
@km Hi - I'd be interested to read those. Are they on your Mastodon account, somewhere? :) @neil
Show threadadvokattMar 20

@arafel @neil the published ones were in computerworld, re-published on my firm's web site:

https://foyen.no/aktuelt/fri-programvare-for-digital-beredskap/

https://foyen.no/aktuelt/digital-beredskap-fri-programvare-gir-kontroll/

a third one should be out soon-ish

Fri programvare for digital beredskap - Føyen

For vel 20 år siden var det enkelte politiske forsøk på å satse på fri programvare i Norge. Den gang var argumentene kostnadseffektivitet og stimulering av norsk næring. Nå er fri programvare igjen et tema i politikken. Konteksten er likevel en annen: nå handler det om nasjonal sikkerhet og digital beredskap.

Føyen
Show threadPaul WalkerMar 20
@km Thanks :) My Norwegian's rusty but between that and some translation software I'm sure I'll get somewhere. @neil