EU OS: A Fedora-based distro 'for the public sector' - eviltoast

It’s only a proof of concept at the moment and I don’t know if it will see mass adoption but it’s a step in the right direction to ending reliance on US-based Big Tech.

    • alphadont@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      As far as I’m concerned, open-source has no nationality, even for a public-sector project. Yes, Red Hat is American. They also don’t own Fedora.

      From the very start, we’ve been built on the contributions of people from every corner of the globe, why should we care about petty geographical squabbles like this?

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      9 days ago

      Probably since it’s the main redhat upstream and they want the advantage of already widespread usage.

      Although at that point why not OpenSUSE for the same reason you mentioned.

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      9 days ago

      if you’re not paying it doesn’t really matter. open source belongs to everyone; it’s a disservice to put it in the same bag as, say, a Microsoft or Apple OS.

      plus how far removed is enough? are we going to scrutinize what programming languages were used and where they originated as well?

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        9 days ago

        Open source is free for everyone, I think the objection is more about an american company being able to directly influence the decisions, operating under US jurisdiction, etc.