Comment by realusername
7 hours ago
How much money did the EU finance towards alternatives last year then?
I hear them complaining but for now, the alternatives are mostly run by hobbyists.
We're starting from so low that even a few dozen millions would help a lot.
> €2 billion over seven years to fund alternatives to proprietary software
For context, as yearly spending of 285 million €, that compares to building roughly 20 km of motorway, or 0.5% of EU's agriculture subsidies, or half what the German federal government pays Microsoft per year.
Edit: 2000m/7 is 285m, not 466m.
> if they just spent a little, maybe as much as a couple of million it would make a huge difference, but they refuse to ...
they do.
> 250 million isn't much ...
sigh.
I'll believe it when I'll see it, for now I haven't seen any of the Android forks (LineageOS, EOS, GrapheneOS...) or Linux OS (Phosh, Plasma mobile, Ubports, ...) get any funds from the EU.
You will see it when you look.