• skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    The blog in question has several proposal in that direction, though a little more sophisticated.

    He basically says that the EU should fund the development and deployment of certain key services that are technologically feasible and hugely important. Even doing this at a total loss, the benefits would be beyond huge and build the capacity we would need to take further steps.

    He lists 7 examples, but I’ll give you 3. We need viable, comparable quality, alternatives to:

    • GMail/Outlook.com
    • Google Docs
    • Github

    The article is here:

    https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/

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        2 days ago

        None of those is nowhere near parity with the big tech alternative.

        I actually use mailbox.org, I pay for it, and I really like it. But try to convince most people to pay for that over a free Outlook.con account and they’ll ask you for their money back.

        It’s not enough to say “just switch, what’s the problem”.

        All those options are more than fine for me and you, and they’re excellent starting points that could become great with the right push.

        And you could have pretended to read the link, it’s actually interesting, by someone who spent a little more time working with and thinking about these things than either me and you.