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.
Microsoft has helped to increase Linux market share once again.
President Shades Strikes Back.
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.
YSK State forced programs are bad.
This isn’t that though. This is the state choosing to use different software themselves. They aren’t forcing them on anyone else.
So when I go to my French court hearing this afternoon, I am not required to use their WebRTC implementation?
How about when I need to assemble our council about an urgent issue regarding the state, do we just mumble to each other like in the olden days?
Teams shouldn’t even exist as it’s so bad, so so bad. Zoom is fine-ish…
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
