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As revealed by an article from GoodTech.info, the European Commission wants to take a new step in digital sovereignty: no longer just financing open‑source research, but fully taking responsibility for its industrialisation.
The observation is clear. For years, Europe has supported high‑quality open‑source projects… whose value is too often captured, integrated and monetised outside its borders. Research progresses, ideas circulate, but the industrial impact still largely eludes us.
With this public consultation, Brussels now poses the question explicitly:
How can we move from subsidised innovation to solid, sustainable, large‑scale adopted open‑source solutions?
What the Commission seems to be recognising today, we have been witnessing on the ground for a long time. We are building precisely at that intersection: the crossroads of Open Source software, research, AI and services, with a constant conviction that open source should not remain a principle or an ideal, but become an operational reality.
This is what guides, for example, the development of LinTO, our open‑source automatic transcription and summarisation solution, now deployed within the European Commission itself, with more than 1 200 equipped rooms.
This announcement thus opens a genuine window. More importantly, it calls for contributions from the entire ecosystem: everyone can share their view, and the opinions will be made public.
The consultation is open until 3 February 2026. We intend to contribute. And you? The European Commission appears ready to listen. It’s up to us to make ourselves heard.
The GoodTech.info article can be found here
