Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence

On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Phillip Frabott wrote:

 In terms of how much MS there is in the infra, you are 100% right. There are small initiatives here and there, for instance, München switched to libreoffice, but usually what happens, is that Microsoft bribes the politicians with promises of an R&D center employing X 100 or 1000 people if they change back, and of course they do, since they are politicians and not open source enthusiasts.
 

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Yeah I mean, MS would never "allow" it to happen. Until politicians are willing to lose money, MS will continue to feed governments money to keep them solidly on MS products. Which again, is where I can say that any 'speeding ticket' case that would be against MS will be quickly dismissed.

I think france judged that MS has to unbundle teams from Office, and in
france it is illegal for them to give away their software since it risks
outcompeting the local competition. But I have not checked this, so
caveat emptor.

There is of course a down side to all of this, and that is that the EU is regulating it's tech sector out of existence, so all skilled technologists, in time, will become employed by non-EU companies, since there will be no point in starting a tech company in europe, only to be at risk of high fines for the slightest mistake.
 

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In my opinion we are starting to see that transition here in the US as well. They are starting with the large corporations (which I think they already have taken over) but will eventually move to the medium/small businesses over time. I hope it doesn't happen because then it's just evil running all of us. But we'll have to see over then next couple elections what happens.

Really?! This was news to me. Usually I read in european pro-business
papers, that in the US all is well, and the EU is flushed down the
drain, so it was very interesting to hear. On the other hand, lawfare
and regulatory capture is a US national sport, so perhaps the driving
force behind that are the big corporations in order to stop any
competition from developing.
I wonder where the next wave of tech startups will come from? Perhaps
Milei will manage to drain the swamp in Argentina, and Argentina will
become the innovation power house of the planet? Talk about something
unexpected, if that were to happen!

In my opinion, the EU will become a museum where rich tourists from the rest of the world will go to experience food and culture. There will of course be a tail of tech jobs in heavy industry, but all innovation will leave the EU if its current socialist and pro-regulation agenda continues for long.

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I fear this is coming to the US as well. "We the people" need to vote out the politicians that are supporting this cause. But the issue is the younger generations seem to want this to happen. Sadly I don't think they realize how bad this is going to be for us over here but they won't realize it until it's too late I'm afraid.

Sad to hear it. And is it still the case that neither US party has any
intention of actually lowering the debt of the country? If not, I would
imagine that it eventually will reach a level at which the credit rating
agencies cannot ignore it any longer, and that day will certainly send
shock waves throughout the global economy! =/