How #Copyleft licenses (like the #GPL) and #LibreSoftware aka #FOSS aka #FreeSoftware can help us all avoid #DigitalColonisation by proprietary US Big Tech & protect our #DigitalSovereignty via the founder of #NextCloud https://video.resolutions.it/w/4d5c5b1d-9613-4201-8d55-9e7906f42518 We need to break the cycle we're currently in. It's expensive, disempowering, & *brittle*. And it's unfit for purpose.

@joncounts I appreciate that, Jon, thanks. And yes. I reckon we could easily save a $billion/year on gov't IT expenditure alone, and much more beside by private industry... and be in control of our own data and digital destiny... at present we've got this:
- https://davelane.nz/mshostage and
- https://davelane.nz/procurement and, in education
- https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards #digitalColonisation #lockIn #dataHeldHostage