Re: A shot across the bow?

On 2025-07-11, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:

On 2025-07-10, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

"The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive"
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/the_european_union_linux_desktop/
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(Sure, it's SJVN, but he makes some good points anyway. ;) )
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Obquote:
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Privacy isn't the only issue. Can you trust Microsoft to deliver on its
service promises under American political pressure? Ask the EU-based
International Criminal Court (ICC) which after it issued arrest warrants
for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, Trump imposed
sanctions on the ICC. Soon afterward, ICC's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan,
was reportedly locked out of his Microsoft email accounts. Coincidence?
Some think not. Microsoft denies they had anything to do with this.
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TL;DR: MSFT has their fingers so deep into user's desktops that EU
governments and entities are worried about the integrity of their data.
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This is good news as long as the migration is done properly. Politics
aside, Linux will give these countries the freedom to not rely on Microsoft
or any other foreign, to them, corporation. Also with much being cloud
based, the underlying OS is much less important compared to 10 years ago.
Even Microsoft is pushing the future as being cloud based.
This should be interesting to watch.

Not a fan of Cloud computing. You don't control the Cloud, but you can
control your own computer.

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