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Richard Speed writes in »OpenStack community finds new strength in resilience« for theregister.com “Europe has a very strong dependency on US hyperscale providers, services… and they realize now that that dependency is potentially going to be leveraged against them, and so they want more local capacity.” “We spent a decade telling developers to ignore infrastructure because ’those hyperscalers are going to solve that for us,’ and now we realize that makes us very vulnerable to a lot of non-desirable outcomes.” ...

Maximilian Henning schreibt in »Quartet of EU countries to cooperate on building sovereign digital infrastructure« für euractiv.com Today both France and Germany, along with the Netherlands and Italy, signed founding papers for a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons – which they said will focus on publicly developed and publicly usable digital programmes. The signature alone is not enough. The consortium still needs to be established. ...

In »Open Source: A capitalistic value engine« Christian Paterson was quoted for opensource.net as follows: Equally, clever engineering that separates commodity – or core – core-functionality with value-added functionality enables companies producing Open Source software to embrace an open and collaborative developer community whilst not providing a completely free lunch for competitors. Of course, if competitors start to feed back into the project because that makes operational sense for them, they effectively become co-investors. That may not stop them from obtaining an advantage, but it helps make the relationship less unidirectional. In this manner, one of the best defence tactics against competitors gaining an unfair advantage is to co-opt them into the project through a genuinely open and meritocratic governance structure. ...

»Cobalt« is a modern open-source media downloader that impresses with its simplicity, speed, and strong focus on privacy — just paste a link, download content from platforms like YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok, all without any frills. With features like batch downloads, automatic resume, and encrypted processing, Cobalt is not only convenient but also user-friendly and secure. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Community is what happens when you do what you love together. – Pete Davis The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.