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Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
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01/02/2026 from
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Drupal founder on "Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it... doesn't require building the European equivalent of Microsoft or Google... [but] Europe has ... some of the world's strongest Open Source communities, regulatory reach, and public sector scale."
While "Open Source is the most credible path to digital sovereignty ... When governments buy Open Source services, the money rarely reaches the people who actually build and maintain it... [instead] to companies that package and resell Open Source... Public money flows around Open Source instead of into it... [it's] public infrastructure but we don't fund it that way... Governments should be contracting with Open Source maintainers, not middlemen... [so] make contribution count in procurement scoring. "
There is movement in this direction:
- eurostack is lobbying for a "Buy Open Source Act".
- the EC "has embraced an Open Source roadmap with procurement recommendations".
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