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That might work for government employees using webapps all day. But for power users it is unlikely to be friction free.
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It's good to differentiate truly independent tech from the unfortunately common government-pushed French-tech that are US-tech rewrapped. e.g. Qwant is a re-skin of Microsoft Bing It's a great move overall.
Ok? You could make the same argument about Chinese tech, German tech, or American tech.
Bpifrance, the Caisse des Dépôts, France 2030, Horizon Europe, etc.
To access that money, you need the right narrative. So companies learn to wrap their pitch in sovereignty language, get the grants, and then quietly build on top of AWS, Azure or GCP.
Not that it's dramatic, but there is a difference between hosted in France (where dependency still exists), and hosted + engineered in France.
Hopefully this transition to Linux is going to push France government to get rid of Crowdstrike, it's insane they let such backdoor run inside.
France has been making good moves to achieve software independence from the US. It would be an even better move to allow those in Europe or indeed the rest of the world to also benefit.
That might work for government employees using webapps all day. But for power users it is unlikely to be friction free.
That might work for government employees using webapps all day. But for power users it is unlikely to be friction free.
It doesn't have to be friction-free. The rough edges can be sanded down with government investment that addresses the needs of citizen-users.
“No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but……
…But it might work for us!”