How much money did the EU finance towards alternatives last year then?

I hear them complaining but for now, the alternatives are mostly run by hobbyists.

We're starting from so low that even a few dozen millions would help a lot.

KronisLV 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I’d love for some of my tax money in the EU to go towards both supporting FOSS development and various home grown software, instead of seeing proprietary DBs and OSes being used wherever I look. Like come on you can’t afford enough devs to make some govt. service well and yet you’re gonna back it by Oracle and Windows Server for the apps, really?

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blitzar 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> €2 billion over seven years to fund alternatives to proprietary software

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jampekka 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For context, as yearly spending of 285 million €, that compares to building roughly 20 km of motorway, or 0.5% of EU's agriculture subsidies, or half what the German federal government pays Microsoft per year.

Edit: 2000m/7 is 285m, not 466m.

	▲	blitzar 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> if they just spent a little, maybe as much as a couple of million it would make a huge difference, but they refuse to ... they do. > 250 million isn't much ... sigh.

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realusername 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'll believe it when I'll see it, for now I haven't seen any of the Android forks (LineageOS, EOS, GrapheneOS...) or Linux OS (Phosh, Plasma mobile, Ubports, ...) get any funds from the EU.

	▲	blitzar 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You will see it when you look.