An unfinished Collabora trial has been cast as an open source failure. The timeline tells a different story.
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Summit contributors weigh in on which would be better: Quitting Microsoft 365 cold turkey or a gradual withdrawal.
The FSF’s concerns go beyond whether AI platforms need kill switches. They extend to who controls them—and whether users will have any say.
Boycotting Google is easier to announce than to do. After the company’s Lake America move, this editor is going to find out what it takes.
A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti‑DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people.
Germany’s federal “Deutschland-Stack” puts Open Document Format at the center of its digital infrastructure plans.
Since this article was published on Friday, the European Commission has added an Open Document Format version of the feedback spreadsheet, meeting the request described in this article.
With a new digital sovereignty assessment and an open framework, Red Hat is courting Europe’s policymakers and CIOs -- but homegrown EU rivals and U.S. politics make it an uphill climb.
The Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs drops foreign clouds for a homegrown Nextcloud and LibreOffice solution, illustrating Europe’s steady move toward digital independence.
Europe wants to buy European, America wants to deregulate the world, China hacks the commons. But code knows no borders… unless we let it.