Do we want tech giants, though?
We don’t want giants but we want companies that can compete with the giants across all markets. That way users have more choice, competition makes products better, and Europe can actually stand on its own two feet where required
Probably not all they do is try to monopolize something then enshittification of whatever they’re monopolizing.
We want standards rather than monopolies. Normies & politicians (who get their tech advice from big tech) often get the two confused.
We want an ecosystem of competition, built on standards.
The Bazaar, not the Cathedral.
Let’s dream big: how would you organize and pay a huge amount of open source software? Tech project giants?
We don’t even need a huge amount of open source software. Just the important protocols.
Similar to how it was done in the early days of the internet:
Some committee (ideally made up partly of researchers, open-source institutions and private companies) agrees on an open standard, and then they all together work towards improving it, and they all use it in a way that is interoperable.
