Why the pandemic could help FOSS, but was a win for proprietary software
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Examines how the pandemic-driven shift to remote work and teaching exposed GDPR and data‑locality issues with proprietary platforms from big tech, with EU governments contracting those services and thereby risking millions of citizens’ personal data. Argues that free and open source software (OSS) could have provided GDPR‑compliant alternatives but was largely sidelined due to lack of time to deploy suitable solutions, and offers a contrasting perspective on these developments.
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