Expect to see more of this before it changes.
The old European elite has figured out that there's money to be made repeating the same business strategies that have got us where we are but with a 🇪🇺 sticker on top. It'll take a bit of a time for people to notice that we also need new thinking.
Robin Berjon
NGL it's frustrating living in a moment where <some> EU leaders are finally getting that tech dependence on a foreign power is a fundamental strategic error
but default to subsidising a new set of locked in but 🇪🇺 flagged tech oligarchs.
Competition, interop and tech diversity are existential.
Maria Farrell
See this is where (truly) open technical standards - both process and product - are needed
the "cloud industry" of basically 3-4 companies decamped to its own private members' protocol consortium - WHICH IS CLEARLY A CARTEL HELLO REGULATORS?! - leaving the rest of us not just locked in but unsafe.
Maria Farrell
NATO’s Digital Back End Could Fall Apart Without Change
foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/09/n...
Shared standards on cloud services are urgently needed.
