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Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

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Post by jsiepkes »

ksajadi wrote: post #2

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> Having had to deal many EU regulations and see their negative impact on small businesses for no sizeable beneficial outcome to the average EU citizen

Because you didn't give any concrete examples the fact you couldn't see any "sizeable beneficial outcome to the average EU citizen" could easily be because of your own ignorance as far as I'm concerned.

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Post by nchagnet »

This is a really great project from both the French and German governments.

I think state-funded open source solutions to digital platforms is a fantastic opportunity to get away from the big tech walled gardens. Of course, there is always the risk that this becomes unmaintained in the future, but the community at least can take over. But until then, it's a nice platform and a nice contribution to the community.

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Post by sebstefan »

ksajadi wrote: post #2

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Their thirst to regulate everything and everyone like they did with GDPR and the gatekeeper legislation?

The EU has been a massive force of good for consumer rights

As a programmer maybe we weren't meant to just be able to have a "thirst" to store "everything and everyone's" data forever. Just implement the GDPR deletion and the data export batch.

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

mgkimsal wrote: post #4

The closest we get is something like USDS, which then gets hijacked in to DOGE. Open source software built and supported by a national government is inspiring. Are there more examples of this I'm not aware of? I hope so.

The UK has Government Digital Services (GDS), which has built and open sourced all the good bits of gov.uk: https://github.com/alphagov

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Post by GardenLetter27 »

sebstefan wrote: post #7
ksajadi wrote: post #2

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Their thirst to regulate everything and everyone like they did with GDPR and the gatekeeper legislation? The EU has been a massive force of good for consumer rights As a programmer maybe we weren't meant to just be able to have a "thirst" to store "everything and everyone's" data forever. Just implement the GDPR deletion and the data export batch.

And the AI Act with the FLOPs limit?

Or the Cybersecurity Act increasing liability for selling software complete with a box-ticking exercise to force money into consultants?

Or the DSA creating loads of bureaucracy for "algorithmic" content when almost everything is an algorithm?

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