Brussels pushes ‘buy European’ procurement plan
Brussels pushes ‘buy European’ procurement plan
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Critical industries should use EU tech. Preferably opensource and preferably not by a monopoly.
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As a Canadian I have seen our government crumble to for-profit entities. The issue is that a lot of governments do not want the liability of something if it fails.
Will EU countries that planned to use open source options and their own staff, already on the payroll, still likely create a procurement plan for maintenance and ongoing tech support?
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For things like government data, they sort of have to run that infrastructure. I certainly do not want my tax data or the like on a Google server or similar. Also people will blame the government anyway, if something goes wrong.
However non government entities can certainly develop software. There is a lot of it used by governments, which is also of interest for private entities and having that sort of tech support is interesting to companies as well. Also it being open source creates competition for getting those sort of contracts. As multiple companies can work on the same project.
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I get triggered when a for profit entity (like ESRI) uses open data and then sells it to governments..
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