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We already have plenty of OSS software.

Signal can be a perfect replacement for Whatsapp. If the EU want to spend money on maintaining, improving and deploying Signal, that'd be great.

People still won't use it, though.

It's too late. If Europe wants a slice of the market they need to make business as frictionless as possible like the USA did in the past - that will bring capital, eventually.

I think Europe has bigger problems to care about though.



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