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Insanely bizarre, Germany has historically been pro-open source and the EU was just saying that the Fediverse is here to stay.
Could you provide a source for the second part? I'm genuinely interested
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112343309342990697
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112338626558805977
Thanks!
That doesn't change the fact that the US has de facto control over most of the web infrastructure
That's a matter of politics. The tax authority doesn't care about the political stance of the German government. They also sometimes just take weird decisions that seem pretty random, but it's nothing political.
Pretty silly for something literally used by the European Union and other European Governments. Am I right in thinking the German Government is one of those?
https://social.bund.de
Germany doing its utmost best to drive away innovation. Genius.
But why go to the USA? The EU has 27 members and Switzerland is a neighbor...
Anti Commercial-AI license
I don't know the answer but they pointed this out further in the press release:
I'd assume that this is for a reason, too. If it were advantageous to run your company out of the EU people would probably do so sometimes.
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe in the USA it is easier due to our relaxed (almost non-existent) business oversight from the government? Not sure.
Also it's a bigger market of lawyers, so probably easier and cheaper to get high quality legal help against bullshit like this.
I know they were already in the process of the 501c but that's really gotta come as a bummer.
They'll lose a lot of donors in the EU if they can't keep that non-profit status.
I thought it was decentralized? Disappointing to learn this.
It is.
The people in charge of maintaining Mastodon in particular though need to establish some kind of legal entity and that needs legal recognition somewhere.
Why? Bitcoin does not and that is the point. If there is a throat to chock some will chock it or take it over.