Manifesto for genuine European technological autonomy
You can be fully open source and fully dependent on a chain.
For European sovereignty and open source.
Sovereignty is not an attribute of software. It is an attribute of the entire chain that produces, maintains, and distributes it. Any single link can be enough to break it.
Fig.The entire chain. No single link is enough.
Six fragments
Digital sovereignty has become a watchword without a grammar.
Dependence runs through code, tools, registries, and foundations.
Adopting free software does not make us sovereign: it makes us eligible to become so.
Sovereignty is measured on the entire chain. No single link is enough.
Autonomy rests less on licences than on the people paid to maintain free software.
As long as European suppliers distribute foreign free software, they deprive sovereign alternatives of their customers.
Publish
The mechanism distinguishes two acts of publication. An organisation publishes to make its chain readable and demonstrate its guarantees to prospects. A person publishes to display their commitment publicly and contribute to the critical mass of the movement.
Economic player
Open source publishers, hosting providers, MSPs, integrators, distributors — and European startups or proprietary publishers whose contractual chain can demonstrate what free software offers structurally. Publishing your Sovereignty Profile makes your chain readable: components, jurisdictions, continuity, capital. It is an act of contractual reassurance toward your prospects and of transparency toward the community.
Personal commitment
Developers, decision-makers, researchers, advocates, citizens — anyone who wishes to display their commitment publicly on questions of European technological sovereignty. A personal declaration is not the same as an organisation’s: it commits you, and contributes to the critical mass of the movement through its visibility.
Reading a Profile
The manifesto addresses distinct roles — CIO, CISO, buyer, investor, journalist, developer. Each reads a Profile with their own grid, and each can publish their own. The guide offers six entries that hold both together: read to decide, and publish to shape supply by demand.
— Preamble —
“As long as we confuse the use of free software with the conquest of independence, we will offer purchase to a strategy that no longer hides itself: the one that turns free software into an instrument of normative domination.”
Manifesto · Preamble