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Working on a new blog post warning against nationalism and patriotism in Open Source. Open Source and Free Software is global and open by default. We had this discussion already many years ago when "national clouds" were a topic. Open Source/Free Software is global by design. Limit that to developers from countries you deem acceptable is fundamentally wrong and counterproductive, is my opinion. Open means open.

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#DigitalSovereignty from homelab to transnational solutions MUST be based on Open Source/Free Software and Open Standards. And those fundamental building blocks MUST be open to all. From anywhere. One planet. One People. One community. Try to limit on that level and fail. It's the only thing I am hardcore fundamentalist about.

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If someone tried limiting those fundamentals, then the FOSS worlds always came up with something new to replace it. See Oracle . ZFS had unfair restrictions, so BTRFS emerged. Or OwnCloud->Nextcloud, Elsasticsearch->Opensearch.. In the end, free software finds a way to deliver solutions when someones tries to play stupid games ..
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@Larvitz Too much of that is unfortunately based on ego and elitism. Not on open cooperation. That’s the underlying problem.
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