It’s important you give your feedback on this:
The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:
- a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
- a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.
Source: Call for evidence: European Open Digital Ecosystems
The US muscled the EU into adopting Article 6 of the EU Copyright Directive, preventing reverse engineering in return for free trade. By implementing tariffs, the US broke that agreement. Theres no reason not to delete Article 6 of the EUCD, and all the other laws that prevent European companies from jailbreaking iPhones and making their own App Stores (minus Apples 30% commission), as well as ad-blockers for Facebook and Instagrams apps (which would zero out EU revenue for Meta), and, of course, jailbreaking tools for Xboxes, Teslas, and every make and model of every American car, so European companies could offer service, parts, apps, and add-ons for them. Video games need to be able to be run after official support shuts down and servers close down. We need to get out from under the high tech lock-in scams, we need to get rid of e-waste. We need to get back to ownership of the products we buy. This is an important part of digital sovereignity and in an uncertain world with unreliable partners, the importance of being able to follow EU values needs to be underscored. FOSS and allowing FOSS to develop is an important lynchpin of this.