I’ve been arguing this for a few years. Create a solid, open source ecosystem for all the things we use for-profit providers for currently. It’d be a massive gain for European governments, and governments/businesses globally to have open enterprise solutions that are maintained with significant budgets (less than what we’re all paying the US now)
Had to look it up, it’s close. Wiki says the foundations were laid in 1785, so not long after the US independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaeger_Corps_(Denmark)
in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country
Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.
I don’t remember, sorry.
But that is exactly how it should be. Why are we throwing our money collectively after institutions that provide zero benefit outside of the solution they deliver? I don’t imagine service providers will go away, there’s no reason for some municipality of 5000 in a remote region to have their own full IT team, but if everything is open source every improvement that happens in one place can benefit somewhere else.