#Eurostack plans talks about #federation and open source a lot. Yes. It can play a role in parts of the stack (particularly back end).
But centralised propriety European champions would most probably have to be part of the mix, also for capital markets to do their part.
Part a lack of vision by European leaders. On that score #Eurostack plans help, but it is barebones and missing much.
It does not take account of two major drivers of US digital power. Network effects/ economies of scale, capital markets and how they create an ecosystem.
Quote from #SAP CEO:
"[…] we must become comfortable with a form of digital sovereignty founded on both self-determination and mutual dependencies. True sovereignty is the ability to always maintain control of one’s data and assets while deploying the best available technologies—regardless of their origin—on one’s own terms."
He also asks to put regulation on hold. No comment on this.
@xwiki Please consider your own lock-in to Youtube!
A reminder that EU_OS is a soft-fork of IBM's Fedora Linux, the free upstream to IBM's CentOS and Red Hat Linux, which are all under U.S. Jurisdiction.
If you want true digital sovereignty, you should pick an operating system that is either a hard-fork, no longer following an upstream distribution, or an independent distribution build from scratch, either of which should be outside U.S. Jurisdiction.
https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Outside_US_Jurisdiction/src/branch/main/Operating_System.md
Thanks to our network of supporters, #EU_OS benefits from early access to a study from the Commission @EC_DIGIT on the in-house use of #Linux on the workspace. It is from 2005 and was revealed through an request for access to documents. Stay tuned and follow #EU_OS as we will publish the report on https://eu-os.eu in the next days and analyse which aspects apply still in 2025.
#European search index is live now! 
Staan¹ (Search Trusted API Access Network) is a joint venture between @ecosia and @Qwant:
> We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to #ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair Internet we believe in.
https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
"#Proton’s latest analysis reveals the extent of Europe’s dependence on US-based tech, and the results are alarming. We found that 74% of Europe’s publicly listed companies rely on US-based tech like #Google and #Microsoft." 1/2
"The challenge is not simply to build a “Dutch cloud” or “European #cloud” as nationalistic alternatives, but to develop alternative visions for the role of computing in society that prioritize people over profit maximization," writes @C__CS in this excellent critique of Europe's #DigitalSovereignty debate and the so-called #EuroStack.
https://www.techpolicy.press/clouds-over-public-infrastructure-rethinking-internet-governance-in-the-hyperscaler-era/
Alexandre Roure of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, whose members include many Big Tech groups, says the debate about blunt market access restrictions for non-EU tech companies “only distracts policymakers from the real task: finally delivering a functioning digital single market with clear, simple and practical rules”.
In private conversations, several Big Tech lobbyists and executives also express confidence in their ability to continue dominating the European market given the paucity of homegrown alternatives and the lack of urgency among many consumers.
by Barbara Moens for FT: https://archive.is/20250725082920/https://www.ft.com/content/5e25c397-61d1-4b48-b5c5-65561a4c9df2 via @Ruth_Mottram 
Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 
Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.
Es wurde gesagt:
Wir müssen uns gar nicht darum kümmern, europäische digitale Souveränität aufzubauen. Können weiterhin amerikanische Produkte nutzen. Wird schon nichts schiefgehen.
Und auf einmal?
Geht alles schief.
Und wir können diesen Infrastrukturen nicht mehr vertrauen, die wir überall eingebaut haben.
Wir haben uns abhängig gemacht, von einzelnen Unternehmen.
@markus_netzpolitik auf der @republica
The risks of using the #Eurostack are software development risks: can the organization build, buy, or run open source to fill the functionality gaps between the Eurostack components you have and the USA-based competition? All stuff that can be worked on by people who are at the end user organization, or can be hired.
The risks of _not_ using the Eurostack are harder to predict, and not something that an end user organization can have much effect on.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-prepares-for-a-u-s-trade-fight-834934be
#EuroStack: European Strategic Sovereign Digital Infrastructures (Pitch Paper) https://eurostack.eu/our-pitch/
"In Europe, discussions are coalescing around an ambitious idea called EuroStack, an EU-led “digital supply chain” that would give Europe technological sovereignty independent from the US and other countries.
The idea gathered steam a couple of months before Trump’s reelection, when a group of business leaders, European politicians, and technologists—including Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s former minister of digital affairs—met at the European Parliament to discuss “European Digital Independence.” According to Cristina Caffarra, an economist who helped organize the meeting, the takeaway was stark: “US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”
The feeling of urgency has only grown since Trump retook office. The German and French governments have embraced EuroStack, while major EU aircraft manufacturers and military suppliers like Airbus and Dassault have signed on to a public letter advocating its approach to “sovereign digital infrastructure.” In all the European capitals, the Danish government adviser says, teams of people are calculating what elements should be folded into the effort and what it would cost.
And EuroStack is just one part of the response to enshittification. The European Union is also putting together a joint defense fund to help EU countries buy weapons—but not from the US. The EU’s executive agency, the European Commission, is patching together a network of satellites that could eventually provide Ukraine and Europe with their own home-baked alternative to Starlink."
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/
During the #UN #opensourceweek in June 2025 in their New York HQ, Adriana Groh from the @sovtechfund talked about open digital infrastructure and digital sovereignty 
. @rriemann , who attended for #EU_OS, was in the crowd – and coded meanwhile on #EU_OS. 
The s̶k̶y̶ UN is the limit for our collaboration: why not also #UN_OS? Robert had the chance to exchange contacts with the digital transformation officer there.
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adrianagroh_unosw-activity-7346877759652020225-73c3
How Eurostack could offer 
Canada a route to digital independence from the US
by Ted Palys, Professor of Criminology, SFU
#Eurostack #Canada #Europe #tech #privacy #democracy #sovereignty
WE NEED THIS
How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States
#Internet #Canpoli #Canada
#EU #Privacy #Security
#Infosec #Computer #Eurostack
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