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Comment by blitzar

8 hours ago

> €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.