Who remembers 2000? The era of ICQ and weird modem sounds, where ISDN was still luxury. Back in 2000, research in IT was an emerging topic and was heavily discussed if there is a future for IT. Plenty of technologies, considered unnecessary or science fiction, are becoming popular today, but found their roots at that time, such as AI or quantum research. It was also in 2000 that the national research and education network Restena has taken on its own legal form, thus confirming significance and central role of both the network for research and education it brought to life 10 years before — when Restena was still at the project stage - and the Internet it brought to Luxembourg in 1992.
So 26 years ago, Restena, the NREN for Luxembourg started with a mindset of promoting innovative ideas, cutting edge technology and always oriented Open-Source for the the research and education sector. With its specific role as the research network it was quite obvious that new and promising technologies should be promoted for the larger community on national and international level.
Even nowadays, deeply anchored in its roots, Restena mostly operates Open-source solutions for covering the needs of the research and education sector, but also contributes actively in the development of new open-source solutions.
This presentation will highlight the impact of using open-source in a commercially shaped world and its users on one side and also discuss its effects on data sovereignty and infrastructure resilience (in the R&E?)