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Corporate lobby hates the idea of state funded open source
It will take a generation or two for the people to win this one
Takes about 3-4 generariom before society takes action.
Most people still don't know what open source is or why they would care when they can use their windows PC to surf Facebook with chrome...
Doesn’t help that the new parliament’s composition has a higher corporate bootlicker ratio
Europarliament is powerless, it can't even propose new laws
These parasites are well funded and organized.
It will get worse before it gets better