Eurostack Watch – Don Marti

📅 Posted on LinkedIn on 10 March 2026 at 17:01

✍️ By Don Marti

“The final challenge is that Europe’s governments may not have the necessary political resolve to defend the continent.”

If you’re waiting for the government to come around and tell you to protect yourself, I don’t know if even the biggest, most ambitious government program can help you.

(Ask your grandparents or great-grandparents: would they wait for the government to send someone to tell them to turn the lights off during an air raid? Or do you check your own lights and help your neighbors if needed?)

This is up to every IT decision maker, at every level, from corporate and public sector CIOs, to development project leaders.

For “Europe must” it makes sense to substitute “An IT decision maker who wants to protect their users must”.

Anyone making an IT choice can either accept the manageable risks of filling in technical gaps in open source or responsibly hosted software—or choose some solution that might look more feature-complete today, but holds unpredictable risks when it starts working against you.

You can’t spell “Eurostack” without “U.”