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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Inside Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley (www.politico.eu)

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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As a Dane, this has been frightening for years. I hope our government thinks of open source solutions, instead of just a european company over a US one.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

instead of just a european company over a US one

even this is an improvement

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Please feel free to help right now. You can still move to the EU if you want to but if you take for example NLNet they fund open source work for anybody anywhere in the World, you "just" have to propose something that is new and needed with a focus on the Internet.