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I'll be starting already.

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What have you already been?

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You've got two minutes extra.

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You can do pretty excellent whatever.

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Yeah, I actually do have my speech on paper.

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It's mostly because I might occasionally have stage fright

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and forget what I want to say.

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It's not because I don't care.

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You actually care.

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Although the main person who did all the job and open sources

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to think over there last Monday, Maritza, my colleague,

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who was just in this room.

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I will mention him, I think, one more time in the speech, actually.

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So just so that, you know, who I'm talking about.

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But being a pirate from the pirates party,

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naturally, this topic is very close to my heart.

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It's just, you know, talking about European legislation

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and sort of setting the scene for the debate afterwards,

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which is much more important.

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And with people who are much smarter than I am and much more versed

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in the topic is the important part.

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But you will have to bear with me for like five minutes

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before I finish my three pages of speech.

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And I do hope that you will not be too bored

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and that I will set up the scene nicely

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into what was done in terms of legislation,

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regarding open source in the European Union.

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And what still needs to be done and what's your role?

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Yes, your.

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It's not just mine, you know, because I need open source community

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to take an active part in this so that we can actually make change.

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And I will speak about why.

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So with this, I think I wasted my two minutes

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that I had before jumping into this speech.

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So yeah, and also I think we are way ahead of starting,

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so people will be coming in.

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But I will not let that disturb me of course.

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So again, thank you for having me here today.

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I am very delighted to speak about this topic.

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I am very scared for any questions,

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but I am mentally prepared for that.

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Of course, I actually am trying to record here today a video

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with couple of random people.

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It's very difficult actually to come someone in an open source event

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such as for them.

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And as then to say something on the camera

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because they are two types of people, right?

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One of them are very shy.

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And no one wants to answer any questions.

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And the second part is very privacy prone,

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so they are like, oh, it would be on video and internet

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with my face exposed, no.

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You know, so that was difficult already,

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but I got a couple of answers.

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And I love that one of them actually said something

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that I have literally in my second paragraph.

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And that person said that open source is not just

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technological phenomenon, but philosophy.

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You know, and I had it in my speech and I was like,

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that's great.

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I agree with it.

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It is philosophy.

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Because it then bodies like some principles.

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He hates that idea.

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A couple of the principles, like collaboration,

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transparency, and fostering innovation.

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And what my role here is today,

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is to set the scene of how the open source philosophy

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in influence EU legislation.

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So one of the most notable examples

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that I have to start with is the European Union public license.

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It's an old one.

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I don't remember it myself that much.

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I'm very young, you know.

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It was launched in 2007.

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No, I'm not that young, but you know,

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2007 I actually was 14.

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So I did not care that much.

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Although I already had that time had Linux,

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Ubuntu.

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And it was made in Rostafarian colors.

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And when I look at the screenshots from back then now,

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I'm like, Marquetta, cringe.

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Sorry, but you know, 2007.

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It was of course the first European free open source license.

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Software license.

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And it was drafted from the open source community's inputs.

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And it has been translated into all of the EU languages.

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So I think that's already,

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that was already a great start of what can be achieved

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when the open source community goes into the EU legislation.

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And let's talk also about more recent cases

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that maybe some of us were part of.

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You and we have been part of shaping the EU's policies

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on artificial intelligence, data governance, digital markets.

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Of course, safety and cybersecurity.

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Me myself, I am not part of most of what I explain

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just the cybersecurity part.

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But I already got so many important inputs

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from your niche tool legislation in various cybersecurity reports.

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Of course, whoever focuses your own cybersecurity knows

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how European institutions themselves are screwed.

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But we are trying to change them.

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Hey.

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So the other legislations that were passed through.

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And very important was the product liability directive

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where we successfully managed to exempt.

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And that will be the biggest part of open source community

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input, usually.

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Don't count us in.

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You know, we don't want to report on this.

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But it's really important.

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So exempt open source from to avoid any liability

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of individual contributors.

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And of course, I must also mention, as I mentioned,

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artificial intelligence, the AI Act.

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Where again, after a very tough fight,

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open source benefits from certain protection,

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that the licensing and transparency are appropriate.

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Originally, I will sort of tell you a little thing.

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I will help with this speech by my advisors.

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And they put here, cyber resilience act.

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Like, yeah, there are also many open source exemptions.

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And it's like I crossed it out.

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Because I do agree with my advisors.

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I do think that CRA is actually not as bad

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for open source community as is generally said.

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But if I said it like that without any context and explanation,

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then most of the community would be like, what the hell?

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You know, CRA is classified.

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But I did want to mention it.

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Again, you were part of the discussion.

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And to continue.

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Wow.

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Yes, this one.

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I, of course, don't want to bring the wood into the forest,

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as we say, in Czechia.

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But I also want to talk about why your input,

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the open source community, is important for e-legislation

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and for anything we do.

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And I want to do it because these successes,

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that I mentioned in the product liability and the liability in the AI Act,

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maybe even in CI, they've never free.

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You know, when we went into the negotiation room,

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we were usually facing a tough opposition to any ideas like that.

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So what we usually brought to the table is,

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the guy's open source, really drives innovation.

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Because if you allow people to modify, to access,

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to distribute, to share software,

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then, of course, it forced us a culture of experimentation

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and improvement, continuous improvement.

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That's not, nothing you can do with vendor lockings.

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And of course, this is very important for me,

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not necessarily as a pirate, but as a policymaker,

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because I am trying really relentlessly to push back against the idea

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that additional protection of intellectual work

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will lead to more and better innovation.

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This is the most common argument I hear.

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And it's not from policy makers, it's from business, of course.

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Secondly, open source, of course, promotes digital sovereignty.

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Because if you use it and contribute to the open source software,

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we can reduce dependencies, dependencies on proprietary technologies.

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We can enhance our cybersecurity.

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It was my biggest point, like,

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if I tell you nobody understands this concept,

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or why cybersecurity is better with open source,

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I would be understanding the situation that's going on.

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Because, of course, immediately Microsoft and somebody swoops in

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and is like, no, you know, if you can't see into it,

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even the adversaries can't see into it.

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So you are better protective.

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Yeah, of course, Microsoft, go home.

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And also, like, it's very particular in the case for public and state administrations.

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And this is where I want to bring Marcel into the picture,

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my colleague, from the previous Monday,

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because he launched a forseps project.

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In order to identify and promote the use of relevant open source,

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initiatives for public administrations.

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And we have just, I don't know, where he's sitting,

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but had a discussion in front of these door with European Commission person.

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And we've discussed that they were trying to put together a list of open source technologies

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that are being used by various institutions,

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and that it was very difficult already.

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And I was like, why you don't know what you're using.

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And, no, that was actually not the case.

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And it's still not the case for many institutions.

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So that the forefront, you know, we are nice, you know,

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that the Council, Black Box,

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which will be full of folks, including,

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of course, whatever they are using.

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Thirdly, and this is actually, I think,

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important point and one person also answered that this for my video is

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that open source is actually powerful,

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economic driver.

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I ask the question like, what do you think is the biggest myth about open source?

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And the person answer that you can't make money with it.

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And I do agree, and Hans, like supported it, it really enables European businesses, especially

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SMEs to compete on global scale because then you can provide cutting it technologies

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and reduce software costs.

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And I also want to study here, which says, and that's crazy, that when Europe invested

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one billion in Europe, in open source software in 2018, it brought positive impact on economy

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between 65 to 95 billion in Europe.

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And also, if those numbers are not persuading them, please make us, then I don't know

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what else.

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So, of course, given these benefits, it's vital that the open source community, open

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source community, this voice, is held in Brussels.

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And I do think that, you know, currently, the US at a critical juncture in terms of where

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it will lead with its digital market.

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Hopefully, on the single digital market, we are getting there.

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But, of course, for this to happen, we need to build bridges between the open source

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community and U.P.S. makers.

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It's was sort of what I am here for, I am already the bridge, but I am very small part

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of the bridge, of course.

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And I think that it involves creating platforms.

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So, hello, Phosem, thank you for creating this platform.

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Also, fostering mutual understanding, and, you know, this sounds like a nice phrase from

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the GPT.

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It was not written by GPT, by the way.

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But, I don't think it's just a phrase, but little needs, because I remember how much

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work me, and I have this example of Marceligan, had to put into explaining to our colleagues,

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what is interoperability?

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You know, and it's quite an easy concept, actually.

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It's horrible work.

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But, quite an easy concept.

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And, so, I gave those months before the understudy.

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And, you know, so, mutual communication and understanding is a need, because people

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don't understand open source community.

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They don't even know what is vendor-locking, although they literally are locked in in

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the vendors.

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So, of course, it's can get challenging, but I think it's very important.

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And, I think that it is even more important seeing the misunderstandings from policymakers,

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regarding vital things for open source community.

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And, of course, nothing of this will happen automatically.

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Open source has made great strides in the EU, as I mentioned.

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But, every success has been the persistent action or prepresistency, advocacy, and the willingness

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to show up, to bring the arguments to the table, and to just help.

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Because the push picks are real, and the victories were never easy ones.

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They were really fought for, not handed to us.

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So, this is why your involvement matter.

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And, so, thus, I encourage you to definitely keep contributing, keep engaging.

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If you did not do it, then start contributing and start engaging.

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And, hopefully, then, we can have a future for open source in Europe.

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And, maybe be an inspiration, because I don't want to get too political.

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But, in terms of the global open source community,

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I will not probably even speak about China.

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And, I think I can't even speak about the US.

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So, Europe is the last standing man, the last standing island of open source,

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where we can be at the forefront, and we can show the good example that everybody can follow.

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Thank you. And, of course, I look forward to any questions.

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But, mostly to the next panel that we'll talk in much more depth about everything I just said.

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Thanks.