Calling KDE Plasma is like calling Linux GNU/Linux. You will find some persons who do that.

The GDPR hat little todo with the cookie law.

The cookie law is the watered down replacement for the do-not-track legal proposal and yes, I agree, it is inadequate.

It is quite ironic that they believe they could do that.

europe provides an open single market that invites also Us players to make business biut in a democracy laws are a matter of the people, not foreign corporations. Apple has no business whatsoever to tell us what to do with our laws

Why didn't they unlawfully monitor the Epstein swamp?

I mean, an associate of the Royal family, with a child abuse ring and strange income sources. What does MI5 know?

Look, they are nowhere on the German market yet. VW leads the EV market.

If these compliance risks were real, the use of these tools would be strongly advised against.

Of course they aren't-

What Trump advocates for is post-economics trade policy.

The post-economics extortion is best to be modelled by the policy ideas of little kids.

Espionage = revealing state secrets to a foreign power.

I assume that Intel is not alleged to forward state secrets to a foreign government.

So what is the crime here, that Intel makes business with other countries?

In fact it is a poisonous import pushed by Us corporations, completely alien to our culture in Europe.
Not even the Vatican museum would meet their puritan code of conduct nonsense.

I guess the fork is more to get away from woke X.org than from wayland

His most recent job title is "President".

The reporting misses an important aspect. Denmark will hold the EU council Presidency for Q2 2025 and thus in a top position to steer all debates.

The Danish crown was confronted with the US presidential threat to seize Greenland, a possession for seven hundred years that predates the early settler communities in the United States. Then the International court of Justice thing of Microsoft that apparently sparked the Smith sovereignty love-bombing to the EU.

There is a pivotal moment now.

One should not issue an open letter but send the observations straight to DG Competition of the European Commission. DMA enforcement only works if competitors send their market facts about obstacles they face.

See also: CASE DMA.100097
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Art. 7(1)

https://ec.europa.eu/competiti...

There is a reason why systems in cobol exist.

What is even the benefit, the added value of having it run in Java?

Anyway, emigration is always an option. Let the empire break down and then seek opportunities later in what is left.

""Frank Miller Jr. made threats against an MSG executive on social media and produced and sold merchandise that was offensive in nature," Mikyl Cordova, executive vice president of communications and marketing for the company, said in an emailed statement. "His behavior was disrespectful and disruptive and in violation of our code of conduct."

I understand Code of Conducts are a dangerous tool of repression but that rather sounds funny. Fascism is on the rise.

I think one could learn a lot from the structure the Document Foundation build with its Berlin lawyer as a host organisation for LibreOffice.

I would welcome a new FaunaDB open foundation.