An internal paper gives some clues about the EU Commission's plans for open source policy in the future. An existing funding programme will continue under a new name and re-focus on commercial value. The document calls on the Commission to support open source in public administrations – and think about a new legal form. Many questions remain open.
The EU Commission has been funding open source projects for years. A programme called Next Generation Internet is central to this by distributing money quickly and without red tape to promising projects –. Involved organisations have said that NGI works well and efficiently. Open source also plays a key role in protecting Europe from foreign actors – particularly important in the current geopolitical environment.
One of the points is actually new: The programme is set to be linked to a “Connected Collaborative Computing” network, or 3C network for short. This network is an EU Commission dream of an internet relying more heavily on telecommunications providers – one of the few tech sectors in which Europe still has a foothold. This idea is currently still very vague.Thibault Kleiner, Director at the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications, spoke more clearly today.
The Commission could also continue the existing NGI funding model – which, according to the author, has so far proven successful. This option would cost the Commission a total of 35 million euros per year. It could also build on what NGI has achieved so far while continuing to reach small organisations with a low-barrier funding model.
The fourth option would amount to up to 70 million euros per year. According to the obviously very optimistic author, this would allow Europe to “set the rules for the digital age”. Europe could become the first region to treat open source maintainers as personnel for critical infrastructure, he says, which could make digital infrastructure more resilient.In terms of budget, the paper is relatively concrete – but apart from that, the plans remain vague.
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