Germany seeks to levy 10% tax on online platforms like Google

c/europe · u/schizoidman@lemm.ee · 74 points

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65313582

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Yeah, it's really infuriating how little money there is. Just imagine how we could improve the FOSS ecosystem with an infusion of a few billion dollars of investments. And if all states would pitch in a few million dollars each, that is easily financed.

u/albert180@piefed.social · 4 points

Fund the development of better Accessability tools in Gnome, and other stuff like OpenStreetMaps, FFMPeg, PyPi, Arch etc... as well.

Maybe you should visit the Website for starters . They have a list thrre

https://www.sovereign.tech/de/tech

u/5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 points

Look for your garden variety open source project. Chsnces are they get partially funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund.

u/Melchior@feddit.org · 3 points

They give money to open source projects. Wikipedia has a list. It is still way to little.

u/HK65@sopuli.xyz · 2 points

This looks like a consultancy with like 10 people and everyone having super high titles.

What to they actually do?

u/Vittelius@feddit.org · 7 points

https://www.sovereign.tech/

u/otto@feddit.org · 4 points

we do, and it will launch in a few days: https://openwebsearch.eu/

u/HK65@sopuli.xyz · 9 points

Could they also fund domestic alternatives?