Nice! Now moving from Windows to Linux is the "easy", visible part. Replacing US cloud + US AI dependence end to end is much harder, and that’s the real deal today.
France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Japanese internment worried you, you should see Europe's treatment of perceived outsiders [0] and get reallyyyy worried about the ongoing attacks [1] and rhetoric [2]. I would urge extreme caution to anyone in Europe that is at risk. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Jews_from_Spain [1] https://www.ein.org.uk/news/home-office-remove-euss-pre-sett... [2] https://www.ft.com/content/0e29224f-9d06-4315-a8…
> Expulsion of Jews from Spain [...] On 31 March 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all unconverted Jews to leave their kingdoms and territories by the end of July that year, unless they converted to Christianity Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but we (I live in Spain) have come a long way since 1492 (534 years ago)…
A more relevant recent example would be the shameful stripping of British citizenship from a girl who had been trafficked to the Middle East
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#113I fear this might be just license costs cutting and not something that Linux and FOSS will benefit from.
Why wouldnt linux and FOSS benefit from usage? At the least it result in social validation, if not bug reports
Social validation brings incompetent users expecting something like Windows that "just works".
Even if they could bring some bug reports... We have lots of those already! We have decades of ignored bug reports.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#114They’re still going the almost certainly end up running this on US designed chips, with US designed networking equipment and a bunch of other assets tied back to US companies. They should do what they want, but it’s “sovereignty theater” at best.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#115They’re still going the almost certainly end up running this on US designed chips, with US designed networking equipment and a bunch of other assets tied back to US companies. They should do what they want, but it’s “sovereignty theater” at best.
You always have to start somewhere. Whether this will succeed or not is not known, but you do have to start somewhere.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
The “main guy” is Finnish. He also got American citizenship recently, but given the US has increased attacks on naturalised citizens [0] and has a history of this [1] it’s not a solid foundation. [0] https://www.npr.org/2026/01/16/nx-s1-5677685/as-focus-shifts... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
If Japanese internment worried you, you should see Europe's treatment of perceived outsiders [0] and get reallyyyy worried about the ongoing attacks [1] and rhetoric [2]. I would urge extreme caution to anyone in Europe that is at risk. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Jews_from_Spain [1] https://www.ein.org.uk/news/home-office-remove-euss-pre-sett... [2] https://www.ft.com/content/0e29224f-9d06-4315-a8…
Musk collects citizenships like they’re going out of fashion. He fled South’s Africa due to not wanting to be drafted.
Lieutenant Torvalds on the other hand fulfilled his service duties.
Should the US and South Africa go to war it seems clear where musks loyalties would lie. Should the US and Finland go to war I suspect that Torvalds wouldn’t be as clear cut.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Expulsion of Jews from Spain [...] On 31 March 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all unconverted Jews to leave their kingdoms and territories by the end of July that year, unless they converted to Christianity Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but we (I live in Spain) have come a long way since 1492 (534 years ago)…
A more relevant recent example would be the shameful stripping of British citizenship from a girl who had been trafficked to the Middle East
They got radicalized and went there voluntarly
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#119AI finding vulnerabilities in open source software is going to make it super unpleasant for a time. I expect there to be a shift back to closed source until we get through that period.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#120AI finding vulnerabilities in open source software is going to make it super unpleasant for a time. I expect there to be a shift back to closed source until we get through that period.
That's also a benefit to some degree. Closed source likely has as many vulnerabilities and bugs, but if AI can't find them it'll progressively become less secure.