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Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source (news.opensuse.org)

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The European Commission sees open-source software as more than an IT tool. Policy makers are encouraging open-source ecosystems to drive innovation, autonomy and collaboration in a world where global trade is being redrawn.

This trade dispute highlights something most open-source advocates have known for years: open source is freedom. It’s freedom from monopolies, freedom from arbitrary pricing, and freedom from foreign influence.

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I hope that’s the case. In the early 2000’s there were so many stories of institutional migrations to FOSS that I thought we’d be done by now!

The Upgrde to Freedom campaign mentioned seems to be a SUSE initiative, or at least I can’t find mention of it elsewhere. https://news.opensuse.org/category/upgrade-to-freedom/