“L’UE si affida a Microsoft” – e lo Zio Sam potrebbe farla finita, sostiene l’eurodeputato
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/eu_foss_fears/
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“L’UE si affida a Microsoft” – e lo Zio Sam potrebbe farla finita, sostiene l’eurodeputato
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/eu_foss_fears/
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they’re right on that.
anything official should be running on a in-EU dev’d linux distro
Do it. Ubuntu is free and much much better.
It is possible. EU should protect itself.
Yup, we’re already prohibited from using Copilot due to “geopolitical issues”
It means it’s working, full steam ahead!!!
Uncle Sam could turn off Microsoft services to the EU, but won’t because there is only one true god in America and that is shareholder value.
It’s kind of funny because, while the EU runs on Microsoft, Microsoft kind of also runs on the EU, don’t they? So the US threatening to cut the wire is a nice wake-up call for the EU to move away from anything the Uncle Sam has to offer. That little dick contest Donnie’s performing will have ugly long-term consequences for the US.
Pleeeease I want to use Linux at work but they do not allow me
They already have shown that they can
The lives of Icc judges and prosecutors involved in the investigations and warrants issued for the actions of Israel in Gaza have become really difficult thanks to us sanctions enforced via us based companies
They lost access to their email and data overnight, impeding their work. Then their day to day financial needs became impossible to carry out.
Same thing in many city governments. When I asked the relevant department head in our city how much we depended on US services and if there was a kind of emergency plan in case the US decided to cut us of he said that we depend quite a lot on it and while they are aware this is actually an issue there is, at the moment, no emergency plan.
Lets hope they do turn it off.
Worked wonders for China when USA forced them to be leaders in many various sections.
Hopefully the Americas will cut off the EU also so we ourselves understand and get self-reliant/sufficient on tech and production.
China is a world leader in many emerging markets, not only green energy but also research and investment in such. The nice Americans paved the way for this. Hopefully we will follow the example China has set.
Cloud Engineer here. Not as easy at it sounds. Because if this we’re plausable (which it isn’t its just rhetoric) allot of US companies are global and are in Europe so it would be direct self harm. Also, a Cloud provider could technically just turn off the electric and it’s back up systems to all the data centres. But that in itself is a complex engineering task. Its more than just cutting cables.
There are fail safes built into every layer, cloud providers spend billions a year just incase a forign actor managed to turn something off.
You need to kick out Microsoft ASAP. The American fascist government wont shut down access to Android, iOS, Meta, Amazon AWS or Microsoft because this is how they spy on the entire planet and foreign gouvernements.
American spyware needs to go faster than this look at how France is moving.
There is a citizens initiative in Finland called ”digital independence”, aiming for critical services to be hosted in ETA and in compliance to EU regulations. Threads promptly banned their Threads account in less than 48 hours.
https://digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi/en/
Libre office is better and free.