GlyphI am really starting to loathe the “sovereignty” framing of open source sustainability, or data privacy, or whatever. It would be good to have a better tech community less beholden to the interests of multinational corporations, more globally distributed, etc, but when you have a problem and you think “I know what would make this better. Intense German, French, and English nationalism” now you have like… at least five problems
Murat Kaan@glyph Multinational corporation = Globalization who hate national sovereignty. Open Source is a tool for nations to protect themselves against that multinational force.
Nuwagaba Gift@muratk5n
Do nations know how to use that tool?
Do nations know how to use that tool?
@nuwagaba2 "China relies heavily on Linux, utilizing it extensively in government agencies, state-owned enterprises, supercomputing, and mobile devices. To achieve technological independence from foreign proprietary software like Microsoft Windows, the country has developed its own homegrown Linux distributions, such as OpenKylin and Deepin."