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When trying to find “European alternatives” to US products – to avoid looking like a 
– ensure that your “alternative” is not funded by US venture capital.
@aral It seems to be easier with software. You just go FOSS and voila. US venture capital stays away from it 
. It takes taxpayers money to secure open source tech for the benefit of whole societes. For example EU / German taxpayers money through Sovereign Tech Fund.
@ati1 They only stay away from the “F” and only then, if the “F” uses the AGPL if it’s for networked use. So we have to be careful to state exactly what we mean by “FOSS.”. Otherwise, they’re perfectly happy to take “liberally licensed” open source (open as in “open for business”) and enclose it. Or even use GPL licensed code on servers. Don’t forget that the Big Web – and thus surveillance capitalism – mostly runs on Linux.
@aral @ati1 I broke the new corporate lawyers brain when I told him that IBM would separately package GPL-licensed code as a stand-alone thing when you buy our proprietary software. As long as we could package the GPL software separately, it was all approved as an overall product. You'd never know unless you dug into the installers and the notices.