The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headquarters are based in Amsterdam, is currently the only EU organization to leave the platform.
  • @[email protected]English
    9•12 days ago

    You don’t get to decide how language works.

    It implies going from a bad situation to a worse one, and has from the moment it existed.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•12 days ago

      Fine. It’s not the right idiom to express the point.

      Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•12 days ago

        I think you, and a large number of people on this site, need to accept that the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about FOSS, and many actively view it as a bad thing.

        Especially a government agency.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•12 days ago

          This isn’t about FOSS. This is about decentralization. You could make that argument on Reddit or Xitter. Not on Lemmy.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•12 days ago

            Agencies will have to share custom-developed code amongst each other in an effort to prevent duplicative software development contracts under a new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.

            That’s not what open source means.

            • @rockSlayerEnglish
              1•12 days ago

              Are you expecting that regular people will understand what foss means without ever seeing it before? The law is literally named the Securing Open Source Act. By law, code that is not classified must be open source.