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Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
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[–] menemen@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The US at least has some degree of control over Microsoft. How much worse is that the EU is still not developing an own OS/distro?

[–] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
  1. SUSE is an in germany founded company (now in Luxembourg)
  2. https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
  3. Not having a government directly develop a "blessed OS" is probably for the better
[–] menemen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I am not talking about a OS for the general public, but specifically for the administration.

And this will work much better with a unified attempt. If the EU would be taking OpenSuse for this, this would basically be the end of OpenSuses independence... I'd like it to be GNU/Linux based though.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't they just get enterprise SUSE licenses instead? Why bother with openSUSE?

[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There were grassroots movements like the Limux project (Munich using a custom Linux distribution). But that got shut down by Microsoft bribery (not confirmed, but MS did build a new headquarters in Munich...).

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, that was a shame. But I really think we'd need a shared OS for all administration units of the EU (from EU level down to munipiality levels). Would be much easier as the private sector could also adjust to it.