France: wants to switch to open source software

also France: wants to ban social media for young people

Do they, in all seriousness, not see exactly how fundamentally contradictory those things are? Open source software development depends on it being possible and relatively easy to host websites that allow the general public to participate so that they can collaborate on open source software development on such websites. Banning “social media” (not endorsing that term) for young people means requiring such websites to implement age verification systems, making it much more difficult and expensive to start such websites and make it possible to collaborate on open source software development. I cannot believe that this is so hard to understand for politicians.

If only we could convince the other European nations to move to FOSS. This should allow greater funding, development, software diversity and efficiency.