Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives. The push for “digital sovereignty” is gaining attention as the Trump administration strikes an increasingly belligerent posture toward the continent, highlighted by recent tensions over Greenland that intensified fears that Silicon Valley giants could be compelled to cut off access.
Probably the only good outcome of the second Trump admin is countries moving off of USA tech. I’m here for it.
Hopefully it goes all the way & we have a closer to democratic or Political Left at least 2-Internet Markets of Things
Microsoft has helped to increase Linux market share once again.
Once again is not accurate. The surge is unlike anything before. It’s pretty incredible and that speaks to how badly they have fucked up. There was an article about how they are reevaluating their AI stuffs. Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know, but that it could be plausible says a lot.
This has been part of one of my long time problems with The EU, I cannot be more hopeful, that finally EU will not have to just regulate & punish a lot The USA corporate Tech businesses!
Teams shouldn’t even exist as it’s so bad, so so bad. Zoom is fine-ish…
The crazy thing is the apps are just browsers (edge for web, electron for app) and it still sucks. And the open source bits work well, but anywhere theres closed source (onedrive) it all goes to shit.
Many are debating which software to use. I don’t care. So long as it isn’t MicroSlop or Apple or similar. It is the first big hammer strike to break up that dependency for the majority of users
at the same time the government office in Germany where I work just switched completely to ZoomX. “but the servers are in Germany”…
You have to understand them, they need to ensure steady flow of donations from big businesses to political parties.
