@andre @onepict @NGIZero @baldur Now look outside of the single market.
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@andre @onepict @NGIZero @baldur Now look outside of the single market. It's easier to do business from outside the EU with most countries in the world than with the EU. If you're in the EU, you can trade with your neighbours easily.
Common customs regime is inflexible and regularly makes importing from outside the EU very expensive; the cost of doing business becomes higher.
I don't see the single market as a requirement for free trade; it removes the latter, and gives it back to a small few.
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@libreleah @andre @NGIZero @baldur I had some hope with initiatives like NGI Atlantic, although again that focus was mainly in research bodies.
Many FLOSS projects are international, so there can be political pressure to keep grant money in the host country. Plus the tax issues for Organisations.
I'd like places like Australia to do twinning initiatives to fund their local folk to help everyone.
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@onepict @andre @NGIZero @baldur Of course, it's also true that large-scale government funding is the reason much of our technology exists today. The internet, computers and much of early computer science was funded by governments for military/academia; later commercialisation and privatisation, backed by further government subsidising, gave it to more people and development accelerated rapidly. This video that I recently watched provides an excellent summary of history:
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@libreleah ooh on my watchlist.
Occasionally when I'm looking up the history of multicast research I've come across papers funded by the US Next Generation Initiative under Clinton and Gore.
It then got abandoned as the authors did other stuff. We need to be longer in our thinking and funding. Like decades.
I feel a bit sad when I come across that.
We need to build solid longer lasting technology that runs on older devices as well as on newer ones.