The Andromeda project was about creating a local alternative to the largely US-dominated cloud space. Given that, the argument that it is counterproductive to push a project which is dominated by US and non-european companies (look at the foundation members) and where most development expertise is outside of Europe, does have some merit no?
Open Source can be hosted anywhere, as many people who have written software later hosted as a cloud service by Amazon have discovered. I don't think there's any merit to rejecting an Open Source project on the basis of where its primary developers are located.
> I don't think there's any merit to rejecting an Open Source project on the basis of where its primary developers are located.
Yet, there is plenty of reason to fund or reject projects based on who benefits from it. Which depends on who decides priorities and goals.
Using EU taxpayer money to fund projects that benefit mostly non-EU industrial groups that are competing against EU companies is self defeating.
Software does not exist in a vacuum. It's not some purely theoretical exercise. Like with any other technology, there can be very real economical, social or political ramifications.
You have to pick some stack to work on. If your requirements are genuinely different, by all means pick software that fits your requirements more than those of others. But if you have the same set of requirements, then you might as well work on the best available piece of software for those requirements, because if you spend time building something else instead then you'll either have something lower quality or you'll build something better that your competitors can switch to to get the same benefits.
True open source software is like ideas, it doesn't have borders and people that try tell you it does are ignorant at best or have ulterior motives.
In this case it's not even true. The commercial entities that play a big role in OpenStack are incorporated in the US but many of the engineers that do the actual work are located in the EU and available for hire in the EU talent pool.
