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I wish canada cared as much
Dont give up hope. This could get the ball rolling and other countries could follow suit.
FWIW last year was the first year I’ve ever had website clients specifically request to be hosted in Canada. Word is getting around that the traditional tech stack is more precarious than once believed.
From Canadian clients or clients outside of Canada?
Canadian clients are wanting Canadian service providers more often.
The feedback from the Inkscape project is a great read.
Excerpt:
Over time, I have notice that the contributions from volunteers in the USA have waned, while those from the EU have increased dramatically.
Were the US contributions from corporations? Otherwise I am unsure why.
Ah yes the 50 000 EUR grants compared to 5 Billion EUR bonds bought from google last year.
Who would have thought that populating walled gardens and other enshitified services is a terrible idea?
One of the fundamental problems is that our leadership is becoming increasingly illiterate in technology. In order to leverage the economies of scale for large systems we need to either content ourselves with enshitified corporate solutions or enable collectivised approaches. Wikipedia is an excellent example of this, more of that please.
