Actually Europe has to gain more institutional weight. I can't see why the EU does not spent the 30 Million to finance their own browser engine in Europe, or convince Apache Foundation to get a European branch. We need European weight on the technology side and can buy influence quite cheaply: Invest in bottleneck technology development. Keep in mind that in the EU there is now a simplified recognition process for web standards in public procurement and there certainly these questions have to be asked and will be asked
Mozilla Foundation has a revenue of 160 Mio$, that is peanuts for the state. Europe should buy them out and migrate their entire operations to Europe, get us full access to technological decision making. And webkit? Well, some research project or state aid for a EU based Euroweb foundation, and we hire 50 developers that implement the ideas that provide added value for European values.
For the W3C we have to ensure dominant participation by Europeans and a relocation of its services back to Europe. We cannot accept an NSA dominated network infrastructure.
Actually Europe has to gain more institutional weight. I can't see why the EU does not spent the 30 Million to finance their own browser engine in Europe, or convince Apache Foundation to get a European branch. We need European weight on the technology side and can buy influence quite cheaply: Invest in bottleneck technology development. Keep in mind that in the EU there is now a simplified recognition process for web standards in public procurement and there certainly these questions have to be asked and will be asked
Mozilla Foundation has a revenue of 160 Mio$, that is peanuts for the state. Europe should buy them out and migrate their entire operations to Europe, get us full access to technological decision making. And webkit? Well, some research project or state aid for a EU based Euroweb foundation, and we hire 50 developers that implement the ideas that provide added value for European values.
For the W3C we have to ensure dominant participation by Europeans and a relocation of its services back to Europe. We cannot accept an NSA dominated network infrastructure.