We need more like this. Europe is totally dependent on US companies for cloud computing.
France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
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#12It's difficult to take an announcement like this seriously when it's posted on Twitter.
This is just some account from a tech journalist
This is the press release:
https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/souverainete-numerique-letat...
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#13I wonder if the EU will begin trying to recruit American software engineers. I’d love to move to France.
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#14I don't see the dependency on these productivity and communication tools as that difficult of a problem to solve.
They are going to have a much harder time weaning off American cloud infrastructure and on to something purely domestic.
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#15I like CryptPad.fr. End-to-end encrypted google docs.
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#16I wonder if the EU will begin trying to recruit American software engineers. I’d love to move to France.
I doubt Americans will even pick up the phone or respond to LinkedIn messages / emails when they will se the budgets for the software Engineering roles in the EU.
I am saying that as an European, just to be clear.
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#17I don't see the dependency on these productivity and communication tools as that difficult of a problem to solve. They are going to have a much harder time weaning off American cloud infrastructure and on to something purely domestic.
They need to do both the hard things and the easy things, and do them in parallel.
Which they are.
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#18For a fraction of what these products cost France could fund open source alternatives. Edit: I'm not saying they don't.
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#19I don't see the dependency on these productivity and communication tools as that difficult of a problem to solve. They are going to have a much harder time weaning off American cloud infrastructure and on to something purely domestic.
ScaleWay and OVH are already filling this gap.
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#20And they can strike back at corporate America by licensing the stuff under gnu licenses. Software that’s reasonably small, reasonably effective and portable. What a concept. If only the EU or UK had 5-10 hackers…
Visio is more than just the software, it's a French run tool where the entire stack is provided at an enterprise/governmental level with various guarentees about availability, confidentiality etc.