If only every open source software didn’t lock enterprise features behind licenses….
Companies still have to fork 90% of useful Foss projects and not upstream changes because they need to reimplement HA features and SSO etc every time
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Not just software, but hardware too.
When each country can manufacturer everything they need because the hardware is all licensed openly, tarrifs aren't so devastating
Note: design and licensing is a far cry for semiconductor fabbing, and not every country can do the latter.
Most countries depend ridiculously much on TSMC (from Taiwan), while TSMC depends ridiculously much on instruments from ASML (from the Netherlands). Grossly simplified, getting where those two currently are takes a decade, and by that time they'll be a decade ahead (unless they get lazy).
As far as I recall, Samsung (South Korea) can fabricate large quantities of semiconductors on their own (but several times less than TSMC). Then come several Chinese companies, one in the US and one in Israel. Beyond that, there's very small fish. The only European foundry worth mentioning (X-Fab) has dropped out of the top 10.
Fortunately most applications of semiconductors dont need to be super small and fast. Getting some old tech that's 10 times the size and 10 times slower than Intel's bleeding edge is fine for most applications.
Better for some applications. Cars don't use bigass chips just cause they're cheap.
Cars are a great example where it really doesn't matter
This is what I'm excited about. My parents are in the market for new laptops, I'm going to see if they will take a framework running popOS and make the switch to Linux. It's incredible that this option is now so approachable.
Throw something like Mint on their old laptops and they may not need new ones at all!
Unless they don’t have current ones, then ignore me, lol.
Hey, that's a good point!
I think they're keen to buy something new, so my main excitement is hey look a shop where you can start with Linux in the first place.
But I could also end up showing them how to repurpose their current laptops as media servers or something, which would be cool!
Check NovaCustom too
Mine are liking Mint quite a lot. They say they feel its easier to find stuff than windows.
Can I say that the issue is much deeper than just tariffs, and that Europe should not be using anything cloud or AI based? Ideally not even from EU if not fully open-source or open-data.
But... This is a good thing. I will take it. More FOSS awareness is great news. As long as it sticks.
It's not going to, though. As soon as the tariffs disapper they'll be impersonating Dory, again.
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