The term “digital sovereignty” is popular but where are the jobs? The EU and its member states are supposedly unlocking billions in funding to support it, but when I search for “digital sovereignty” jobs, I find next to nothing.
Is digital sovereignty really happening or is just being hyped with nothing behind it?
I am a software developer in Germany and have also been wondering where are the jobs for creating the Linux software to replace Windows software. So far I have seen hardly any.
I’ve been using Linux as my desktop OS for a quarter of a century. Most of said software wasn’t written specifically in Germany, but unless someone’s all “ESR isn’t German, so I’m not going to use
fetchmail” or something like that, I’d think that most bases are covered.I think that the only real exception is commercial video games.
Most commercial video games I play are PE executables rather than ELF, but Proton runs 'em pretty seamlessly under Steam, so…shrugs They also aren’t generally open-source, but I doubt that video games are really on anyone’s sovereignty radar.
Though if the Bundesregierung is gonna go fund some devs to implement a Linux, German Fallout-type open-world game, I’d totally buy that.
Hmm. Now that I’m thinking about it, Russia apparently actually did have some program to fund the creation of Russian video games that I remember a while back.
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YouTube: The Russian state spends $10,000,000 to make the worst RPG of 2024
https://theins.press/en/society/259526