You’re saying that having your supply chain outside of your control strengthens your sovereignty, because apparently controlling it would be “evidence of far weaker sovereign control over their jurisdiction”.
Guess what, microslop operates within europe not just with github, but also with… Can you guess it? Yes, their office suite. And yet, the EU saw fit to develop an alternative to strengthen its digital sovereignty by removing a supply chain liability.
You are equating hosting on github with “isolation”, but that is complete bullshit.
First: there is no isolation whatsoever. Codeberg is fully searchable and indexable by search engines. It is an open and open source platform.
Second: the only way for a software forge to become more popular is for projects to use it. If the only problem with codeberg, in your mind, is that it’s not popular enough (and not other techincal or political issues), then not using it is not the solution. Indeed, a major european-backed project being hosted there would boost its popularity overnight.
Third: all of this is moot anyway, because if the only issue is popularity and visibility, the EU could have set up a github mirror of the codeberg repo instead. People searching on github would find the repo, search engines would bubble the result up, and the mirror would link to codeberg. Done.
The decision to host on github is completely unjustifiable when a perfectly valid european alternative exists.
I don’t see why the choice of host wouldn’t be “within the scope or ability” of an office application. Somebody (or rather, multiple somebodies) has decided to develop an alternative office suite branded as european, mainly for political reasons (I consider resilience against supply chain disruptions political reasons rather than technical in this context).
Therefore, it is clearly within the scope and ability of a “simple office-alike application” to “not reward these de facto monopolies and political meddlers”. It is evidenced by the fact that euro-office even exists. This extends to the choice of host.
And let me stress out that the only one talking about nationalism is you. Europe needs to disentangle itself the fuck away from american corporations because they are a liability and absolutely have the ability to make the entirety of europe crawl to a standstill if they wanted to, and that is a national security risk that has nothing to do with nationalism.
What an unhinged take.
You’re saying that having your supply chain outside of your control strengthens your sovereignty, because apparently controlling it would be “evidence of far weaker sovereign control over their jurisdiction”.
Guess what, microslop operates within europe not just with github, but also with… Can you guess it? Yes, their office suite. And yet, the EU saw fit to develop an alternative to strengthen its digital sovereignty by removing a supply chain liability.
You are equating hosting on github with “isolation”, but that is complete bullshit.
First: there is no isolation whatsoever. Codeberg is fully searchable and indexable by search engines. It is an open and open source platform.
Second: the only way for a software forge to become more popular is for projects to use it. If the only problem with codeberg, in your mind, is that it’s not popular enough (and not other techincal or political issues), then not using it is not the solution. Indeed, a major european-backed project being hosted there would boost its popularity overnight.
Third: all of this is moot anyway, because if the only issue is popularity and visibility, the EU could have set up a github mirror of the codeberg repo instead. People searching on github would find the repo, search engines would bubble the result up, and the mirror would link to codeberg. Done.
The decision to host on github is completely unjustifiable when a perfectly valid european alternative exists.
I don’t see why the choice of host wouldn’t be “within the scope or ability” of an office application. Somebody (or rather, multiple somebodies) has decided to develop an alternative office suite branded as european, mainly for political reasons (I consider resilience against supply chain disruptions political reasons rather than technical in this context).
Therefore, it is clearly within the scope and ability of a “simple office-alike application” to “not reward these de facto monopolies and political meddlers”. It is evidenced by the fact that euro-office even exists. This extends to the choice of host.
And let me stress out that the only one talking about nationalism is you. Europe needs to disentangle itself the fuck away from american corporations because they are a liability and absolutely have the ability to make the entirety of europe crawl to a standstill if they wanted to, and that is a national security risk that has nothing to do with nationalism.