I’m curious what your stance on using products and services from non-European foundations is.
The discussion on LibreOffice made me think about your acceptance of open source products or free services from no-European, or even US American, foundations (The Open Document Foundartion is registerd germany, though).
Mozilla data privacy controversy aside my thought would for example apply to
- Apache Software Foundation (OpenOffice)
- Mozilla Foundation (Firefox, Thunderbird, …)
- Signal foundation (Signal)
to name the biggest.
For me the use of non-commercial or even open-source products and services from different non-European countries is okay, as they are funded by donations.
The whole idea of buyFromEU seems to funnel money into the own economy in order to have a strong market, and also to proudly use European products. The above mentioned foundations help to increase data sovereignty and after all break loose from commercial solutions that aim at deep integrations and walled gardens.
Good point. On ther other hand you can use signal with a handle of your choice, too. You don’t need to distributed your phone number anymore.