Two Minutes Hate #1 - The awakening of the EU

Wow, things are happening! The EU has woken up and discovered open source. 🤯 And they’re even starting to gather information on how OSS is actually made. Surely, in a few months we’ll get some kind of groundbreaking resolution that magically fixes it all.

But let’s not be too hard on our European leaders. It’s not their fault. That multi‑year AI‑driven tech boom apparently wasn’t visible from here — not “past all that green.” 🙃

So let’s help them find answers to their questions. They’re surprisingly simple:

1. Repeal about 80% of the regulations.
2. Don’t come up with monstrosities like eID, CSAR, and a CBDC.
3. Stop putting roadblocks in developers’ way and let them work freely.
4. (bonus) If 1–3 are done, we can do without subsidies and grants.

And here’s the GH article: Help shape the future of open source in Europe