Thr answer to US tech giants are not homegrown EU tech giants, but international free software (Free as in Freedom). We already have free operating systems: Linux, BSD. Office software: LibreOffice, etc.

EU regulators have stop listening to tech company lobbyists.

> But in many cases there are not any homegrown alternatives to support

There shouldn't need to be. Realistically for something like this an EU backed highly-audited non-profit should be in place for permanent highly controlled services like this that do not rely on any non-EU entities for it to function.

This is simply untrue. The tech is there, the will (money) isn't.

Understandable. However every new solution should be built from the ground up and be fully decoupled even if the migration of old services might take a while.

For this specifically EU could surely (only in theory since statistically the average EU bureaucrat is a pompous idiot to whom the word “accountability” is an entirely inconceivable concept) have something developed for a sane price in a reasonable amount of time.

How much money did the EU finance towards alternatives last year then?

I hear them complaining but for now, the alternatives are mostly run by hobbyists.

We're starting from so low that even a few dozen millions would help a lot.

> Not really. EU is actually trying to decouple. But in many cases there are not any homegrown alternatives to support.

If the EU was trying to decouple they'd mandate at least including a hardware token option as an alternative. This is not new technology, it's existing and has been in use for decades.

They're not trying to decouple, so they haven't mandated it.

Jolla?

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