Alexandre Dulaunoy14h ago

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured

Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.

The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.

The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are real, urgent, and interesting. What is often missing is the will to tackle complex programmes seriously, over time, with teams that are allowed to build, fail, iterate, and take responsibility.

Europe does not need a Palantir clone. It needs the capacity to build strategic software for intelligence and security missions without outsourcing the core of its thinking.

#opensource #intelligence #cybersecurity #palantir #europe #sovereignty #intelligence

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@adulau agreed. But we should only build what people need.

Based on core values of a socialist society.

I’m not interested in anything else.

Social and democratic value based, because capitalists and fascists have been served already by everything from the US and China.

So!

Not a single taxpayer cent should go to for-profits, unless they give what they make back to the taxpayers: open source, open standards, completely documented, with explicit exit strategies for every component, and without a single NDA anywhere in the supply chain.

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