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Is there any push within the EU to work on Linux and other free software alternatives to US software, to stop having the whole administration of every single European country, and the EU itself, be totally dependent on software that can spy on us all for a hostile, nazi regime?
@forteller @senficon in Canada, I bring this up at every meeting where the choice is between a Canadian s/w vendor, or Microsoft. Problem is, Microsoft makes it easy for users not have to think.
@forteller @senficon there is, yes. NLnet has been a big funder of work like that for some years now, and efforts along those lines have been picking up a lot of steam lately.
@forteller @senficon we're not the right people to get into detail on it, but broadly speaking the push is coming primarily from governments
@forteller @senficon seeing were google is taking the internet, we need a push away from chrome as well...
@forteller @senficon my soul for here in the US to have everybody using freebsd and nextcloud.
@forteller @senficon absolutely, there is an os project and discussion :
https://eu-os.gitlab.io/
@forteller @senficon Yes, the keynote at @FOSSBackstage last week was on this very topic:
Digital Sovereignty and Open Source – Shaping an answer to geopolitical instabilities, by Jutta Horstmann
@forteller https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/digital-services/open-source-software-strategy_en - I'm not in the industry any more, but I think the EU has been the best hope for improvements in society vs software companies interactions for a fair while now. It's certainly not going to be the USA.
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Next Generation Internet, but it is underfunded, a bit narrow in scope, and under threat of cancellation due to AI.
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@forteller @senficon I heard the German government is actively moving away from M$ Office to LibreOffice. A good first step, making the OS switch later more easy.
@QuantumAspect @forteller @senficon also Schleswig-Holstein (the most northern state of Germany) is switching to Linux. https://www.heise.de/news/Schleswig-Holstein-treibt-flaechendeckenden-Einsatz-von-Open-Source-voran-10177595.html
The city of Munich famously switched to Linux in 2004. Sadly Microsoft lobbyists convinced the government in 2017 to switch back. The new government in 2020 reversed that partially. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
I suppose. For hardware @tuxedocomputers.bsky.social from Germany seems really promising 
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