I don’t know if they can sue them, but I hope they can get other companies to join. Fighting google in court is a monumental undertaking for a company. But if they can get the EU consumer protection to sue for them, that would be amazing too.
Amerkar. I like that
Proton? Isn’t this the company that praised Trump and the fediverse lost its collective mind for a news-cycle?
Please hit us with tariffs. Pwetty please mista twump! I need my family to take Buy European seriously!
Yes! It’s a great Google Apps alternative. What’s missing is public transport schedules.
There’s a General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) which is an open data standard for transit passenger information. It was developed in the US, but maybe it could be used in the EU too if it doesn’t have a European alternative? We could all email or @ the public transport companies of our areas and ask them to publish these. Or even @ the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu here and on other social media.
Public money, public data, public code.
Edit: holy shit, GTFS was developed by Google! It might be how public transit systems world wide are publishing to Google! We should tell our public transit systems to make that data open to everybody, not just google!
We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.
Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.
What does this mean?
We don’t deserve to exist on this planet. What the fuck is wrong with us?
We need a campaign to convince the other 56%.
If it’s done with opensource and opendata, decoupling won’t be a problem. In fact, it might even give the EU less leverage. They can threaten to stop supporting or developing an opensource project or providing open data, but any other nation or group can decide to continue.
It’s a pity it isn’t open data, but no opensource project has been able to replicate their interface and make the data available, so I guess this is the best we can do at the moment. Still, my goto when looking for alternatives.
pewdietube
People with google accounts should tell him to join peertube. He’s already on the opensource train.
Why is this in Buy European? Is Lenovo European?
That’s not the issue. The issue is that the 200€ are included in the laptop price. It doesn’t matter if your computer illiterate cousin buys a computer and then you come along with a 20€ stolen windows key: they have already paid 200€ for the windows licence.
I donate more for opensource software than I ever would’ve paid for proprietary software - and I’ll keep doing it as long as I can. Opensource could supplant proprietary software if people donated instead of giving money to shit companies like Adobe. This video (1 billion dollars for opensource)convinced me how much opensource is worth and how much more it should be getting
The others are cheap because of child labor and pesticides. It’s what gives the extra kick when eating them ;)
Most big brands (even in Europe) are terrible because they rely on child slavery. There’s a documentary about it.
If you want to buy European chocolate, well it can’t be fully European because Europe doesn’t grow cocoa, at least look for fair trade chocolate. That or an equivalent should be the minimum claim a company makes. I say claim, because that’s what they are claims. None us will know for sure until we step foot in the places where these companies source their chocolate.
If you want an easy list https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ has some. Top of the list of small, european companies:
Tony’s is top of the “medium and large companies”. Rittersport is also up there, but I don’t trust that at all. They are closely followed by Nestlé, lol. Fuck Nestlé.
No. This is not a dichotomy. It’s “Buy European where possible, try to prefer it, be reasonable”. Buy European doesn’t mean only European, forever and ever, Europe best country ever. That’s a very US mindset.
So we need consumer complaints too. Pressure has to come from the public. If you see something wrong with a product or company, monopolistic behavior, send in a report to the consumer protection agency of your country.