I would love for such a fund to invest very liberally in these companies, on the condition that anything it funds must be free and open source - public money, public code! The only way to take down these giant US companies is to work together, and the most effective way to work together is to release everything in the open in such a way that anyone can build on top of it.

If the money just gets funneled into these companies so they can build their own lock-in, the EU would be recreating the same dependency on a few small companies that happened in the US. It wouldn't increase productivity in the long run, it would instead substitute dependency on a few US companies for a few EU companies.

But, if they invest in open source software, it could spur innovation not only in the companies that are directly funded, but also thousands of other companies throughout the EU that would now have common infrastructure that they can build on top of.

Please let this finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

Multipolarism is good for everyone. Even if you hate the EU, it is a good thing for no single country to dominate everything from culture to technology.

We're going to entering the find out stage of the USA's fucking around pretty damn soon.

Open source and copyleft please.