I really hope a strong copyleft license is promoted because while MIT, Apache, and BSD are considered open source licenses by the OSI; those permissive licenses still allow for corporations and bad actors to benefit from the efforts of many developers without proper reciprocation of payment and/or contributions.
MPL for libraries, AGPL for applications.
I’m a big fan of open source, but I just don’t think so. Companies and governments want to outsource hosting, cloud, and other IT work to big full-service corporations like Microsoft. If the EU wants digital sovereignty, it’s going to need one or more Microsoft-like corporations capable of delivering full-service solutions. The alternative is to contract with consultancies like Accenture to set up and administer Linux desktops, Libreoffice, cloud storage, and so on. That’s doable, but companies and governments just don’t want it. They want low-risk common solutions with predictable billing (i.e. not Accenture).
Outside of cloud services, all governments would need to do is define service contracts based on number of users, which isn’t that different from other support contacts like Microsoft 365.
I feel like building European owned cloud servers are going to be the biggest problem.
When the average person can remember their password and changes it regularly - ok.
Until then, it’s going to be a hellscape of underpaid overworked IT.
