Open Source is a licensing model, a governance model for communities and projects, and a business model. But can the EU, and can governments use Open Source as a strategy for economic actors?
The EU and governments seem to have understood the benefits of Open Source in the context of increasing digital sovereignty. Public administrations make use of “public money, public code” approaches to make investments more sustainable, transparent, and inclusive. But there is a third way pilar to making Open Source beneficial for our societies, and that is to make economic actors cooperate on the basis of Open Source.
Open Source as an economic governance model is particularly effective in allowing companies to cooperate on projects where they otherwise would be competitors, across regions and borders.
This talk explores the third pillar of Open Source, the cooperation between businesses, and in public-private partnerships on the basis of openness.
