The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headquarters are based in Amsterdam, is currently the only EU organization to leave the platform.
  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    I think you, and a large number of people on this site, need to accept that the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about FOSS, and many actively view it as a bad thing.

    Especially a government agency.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      This isn’t about FOSS. This is about decentralization. You could make that argument on Reddit or Xitter. Not on Lemmy.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        Agencies will have to share custom-developed code amongst each other in an effort to prevent duplicative software development contracts under a new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.

        That’s not what open source means.

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Are you expecting that regular people will understand what foss means without ever seeing it before? The law is literally named the Securing Open Source Act. By law, code that is not classified must be open source.