Comment by Sol-

7 hours ago

The money can't all come from the state. If the EU wants to compete, it should create a common market worth its name where EU companies can raise billions like American ones. If that doesn't happen but we instead pat ourselves on the back for setting aside a pithy 5 million Euros in some EU budget to support open source, it's never going to happen.

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wqaatwt  5 hours ago

> it should create a common market worth its name where EU

There is no reason to believe that the EU (rather than the market participants in the EU) is in any way capable of that regardless of the amount of political will.

Spending massive amounts of money without knowing what you are trying to do or how will just result in a massive amount of grift and corruption