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- buran@lemmy.todayEnglish14 days
I don’t know, but I’m not sure if a government funded fork would be the right move.
Many people have their doubts about using funding for things like that, I wouldn’t be opposed to it but Europe has other problems that people might consider more urgent.
- ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish13 days
It would absolutely be the right move. Some individual countries are already doing this and there are proposals for EU to do the same:
- Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish13 days
Yeah, it would be so much easier for the eu to do chat control is they controlled the while os
13 daysOK. So in that case the easiest thing to do is to hand out fines.
- Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish14 days
Is “kill” a strong word here? They are heavily restricting it, and it’s reversible with some effort, know-how, and compromise, right?
But killing it, I feel like they are not. Even though I strongly oppose what they are doing, don’t get me wrong!
- buran@lemmy.todayEnglish14 days
I mean, it’s the Android Open Source Project. Restricting it would be against the interests of the Free Software/Open Source movements and I believe that’s a violation on the principles of the project in my opinion.
The DMA isn’t about punishing successful companies: it’s about preventing gatekeepers from deciding who gets to compete. If Android users can choose their browser, they should be able to choose their AI assistant too. Competition should happen on product quality, not on who owns the operating system!
- AppleMango@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
Can’t they not let Android get locked down in a few months too? It’ll almost become as bad as iOS at that point. Who knows they might even block installation of other OSs in the future.
- 14 days
The EU doesn’t actually care about user freedom, they just want as much surveillance as possible.
- AppleMango@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
They had no reason to wait till the AI boom for this, could have done it long ago when google assistant was the only one allowed access to these things.
