I of course did not say you can, I listed open source as merely one requirement for a certain kind of sovereignty. If you really wanted to limit it to european contributors that would be covered by "governance" but I take the view that it is not the case that you need to have every single contributor subject to a certain jurisdiction in order to achieve sovereignty so my governance requirements would be more about ensuring that the development and decisionmaking process is not and cannot be controlled by a foreign entity for example.
One part of this discussion is in fact about what exactly we mean by digital sovereignty as it is not a fully established term and the way "sovereignty" is used in other contexts is not necessarily the right one or even give a complete definition that would work here.
I would also add that we should look at it as more of a spectrum than a binary because it's probably impossible to at once come up with software and services for every single purpose that satisfies the ideal criteria. Some projects will get us closer to sovereignty than others. Proprietary software is unlikely to get us very close at all unless it is government-owned as anything short of that means it could be transferred to a US entity at any point in time.
DjVu probably but it's old and nobody uses it. PDF isn't ideal seems to be workable enough, it was always a much more functional way to share documents than doc or docx.
I wouldn't say this title is a failure but someone did arrange a bracket for people to vote for the best among funny headlines like these on the fediverse. I wish I remembered who it was.
My understanding is that Sweden is one of the worst when it comes to businesses no longer even accepting cash. Would probably need to do something about that for this advice to make any difference.
Applies to most other countries as well of course, you see cash being phased out more and more. Sweden just happens to be further along that path.
I mean I did not even specify any particular open source project that you could infer any particular nationalities developing from so it's pretty bad faith trying to straw man me like this. Furthermore you seem to have completely misunderstood what I was saying.
Both Volla and Fairphone are still mainly Android phones but they do offer some level of support for alternative operating systems. In Jolla's case the device is intended to be used with Sailfish and your money from buying it goes directly to the company that is developing Sailfish.
Well a stronger version of digital sovereignty that requires open source with appropriate governance and appropriate licensing could also mean serving every user's interests.
Of course interests of the European governments also probably align much better overall with the interests of European citizens than the US government interests and they can be influenced much more by European citizens democratically.
Just as I thought Europeans had started to have an understanding that just appeasing Trump may not be the thing that will keep working. I guess the Greenland question has been pushed to the side in a way that has made them return to that strategy... but I think issues with Greenland have a pretty good chance of returning unless Trump becomes preoccupied with something else.
I think their refusal to allow third-party clients but also only maintain the official one for select few platforms is one of the things that is a big fat minus for Signal
In the case I'm thinking of probably just correcting the record and not looking like a bitch that lets the idiot lie while standing idly by.