I wish canada cared as much
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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Dont give up hope. This could get the ball rolling and other countries could follow suit.
I think they do actually. They just showed support for Greenland and has publicly said they are slowly breaking away from trade deals with the US.
Europe is the obvious new partner and both sides would benefit alot.
Canada is for sure also looking at the tech side. And with the open source approach from the EU, they too can benefit.
I want Canada to be a contributor not just a consumer of Europeans tech products. Big tech projects including open source financing should have been part of Carney's nation building projects in my opinion
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.
Tell your representatives.
The feedback from the Inkscape project is a great read.
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Over time, I have notice that the contributions from volunteers in the USA have waned, while those from the EU have increased dramatically.
I would be curious to find out why, honestly. Is there some economic factor? Has Adobe thoroughly captured the market? Is it cultural? I know the comment author speculates that it's a cultural/political shift, but I'm curious what the data would show!
Were the US contributions from corporations? Otherwise I am unsure why.
Oh, good, it'll only take them a decade to start doing anything but i guess it's a start...
Ah yes the 50 000 EUR grants compared to 5 Billion EUR bonds bought from google last year.
Somehow i think this year will be about war, not tech dominance. Its peak Trump now.
Thanks to The USA people not be able to vote & far, far & far too many of those that could vote not voting & voting for ‘Crazy Don’!
I think you're right, but the war is inspired by tech.
China and the US are competing in the AI arms race. If they wanted to help the world forward, they would be in an AI collaboration, recognizing that AI can help us forward, but is also a risk that needs regulation. Instead they are in a race, because whoever wins can dominate the world. Whether the motivation is to dominate the world, or out of fear of being dominated by the other, suspecting that's what they want to, both will do whatever it takes to win the race. And whatever it takes is more than just pumping data and energy into the project. Millitary might can and will be used.
International collaboration is key, AI needs not be in the hands of a company or goverment, it should be in the hands of the united nations or something similar. Sadly I don't think that will happen any time soon,
Great link. Thanks.
I think it needs to cover infrastructure too.
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.
Oh, PLEASE happen!