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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
#262Now that on-chip silicon radios have been invented, using anything but home-designed cpus, and in general all chips, is lunacy from a nation-state security standpoint.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
France has been doing this in parts of its government functions for years, building expertise and learning what works. What do you imagine the EU institutions would bring to the table?
Good on France for doing that work. More countries and/or EU involvement could bring economies of scale: apart from translation, a lot of work on fixing bugs and adding features to the relevant open source projects can be done once and benefit all. So either get the same results faster, more cheaply per country, or both. Sure, that adds some bureaucracy and coordination cost too, but should be worth it overall.
The EU could perhaps fund some of the work but it is the Cathedral to Linux's Bazaar.
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Curious where you are. I am in Canada and it's certainly mixed feelings but I think there are plenty of Canadians that understand that despite the current craziness we're in this together for the long term. Similarly in the US there are plenty that understand this. In relation to Europe vs. the US. Even before the current administration Europe has been at odds with American companies: "The European Union Renews Its O…
Interestingly, China is succeeding because it isolated itself partially from US big tech. That enabled them to build their domestic companies. If you give free reign to US companies, they‘re going to swoop up any competition early on. The US relies on being attractive for smart people. There are still smart people going to the US, but the general mood seems to be that it‘s increasingly less attractive. Mid term, litt…
Why can't people understand this basic fact? China does not have a free press. The only information you're getting on public channels about China, unless you dig as deep as a financial analyst (i.e. getting trade data about China, but exclusively from non-Chinese sources. Other countries. Central Banks. Satellite images. Ship records. And so on) you are getting propaganda and nothing but propaganda.
So it doesn't matter what is going on with China, in the press you will always find "China is succeeding", with 1000 because's, usually "because" exactly what the last CCP meeting decided their economic plan is. It doesn't mean shit.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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> Mid term, little will change, long term the cultural hegemony of the US will be replaced by multipolar influences. Everyone's been saying this for like 20 years. It just hasn't happened. At some point you realize that the people constantly pushing "multipolarity" just really don't like the US. It's wishful thinking
Past performance doesn't guarantee future performance. Otherwise xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/ would be true.
Using stock market wisdom to criticize the US, and defend "multipolar" countries like China and Russia?
Love it!
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trump's power is not unchecked. He probably doesn't even win the craziest president award. Historical US presidents: Andrew Jackson -> threatened to hang his VP. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/41212/did-andrew... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson had meetings while sitting on the toilet: https://historyfacts.com/famous-figures/fact/lyndon-b-johnso... Richard Nixon - needs no introductions?…
There are now "loyalty tests" for those who apply to positions at the FBI, to be hired you have to state that the "patriots" on Jan. 6 2021 were the rioters attempting a coup, not the Capitol Police defending the constitutional transfer of government power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/08/... But technically you are correct, of course. Trump never demanded that VP Mike Pence be hanged, the…
I think the parent post is defending what somewhat older people know to be true. Nixon was far worse than Trump, also betrayed US allies for example. And where it hurts: he effectively stole gold from them.
And I'm sure in another 20 years even democrat voters will remember, probably correctly, that Trump was so much better than $us_president_at_that_time.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
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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.
Why would only incompetent users expect something that "just works"?
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good on France for doing that work. More countries and/or EU involvement could bring economies of scale: apart from translation, a lot of work on fixing bugs and adding features to the relevant open source projects can be done once and benefit all. So either get the same results faster, more cheaply per country, or both. Sure, that adds some bureaucracy and coordination cost too, but should be worth it overall.
The EU could perhaps fund some of the work but it is the Cathedral to Linux's Bazaar.
It would be the Cathedral if it made a 5 year plan to build the perfect solution (even more so if from quasi-scratch). But the EU is also known to offer (sometimes small scale) grants in specific domains. That's much more compatible with the Bazaar.
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This is EU, what else do you expect? European officials saying they're ditching Windows has become a ritual: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/german-open-source-expe... : > The German Foreign Office first moved over to Linux as a server platform in 2001... the Foreign Office of Germany made the announcement (translated news report) that it is migrating away from Linux back to Windows as its desktop solution. http…
Those attempts happened before the US really made such a concrete demonstration it was a security and strategic risk though. That was back in the good old days where they at least pretended to be strategic partners. It's good to be sceptical, but the US really does present a clear danger to the EU and UK now (and the rest of the world). I'm hopeful that this will actually materialise this time, and that Munich and Bi…
The Reddit tier anti America FUD on this site never fails to get a chuckle out of me. Every single day the discussion here gets lower and lower quality.
Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, China is succeeding because it isolated itself partially from US big tech. That enabled them to build their domestic companies. If you give free reign to US companies, they‘re going to swoop up any competition early on. The US relies on being attractive for smart people. There are still smart people going to the US, but the general mood seems to be that it‘s increasingly less attractive. Mid term, litt…
Why can't people understand this basic fact? China does not have a free press. The only information you're getting on public channels about China, unless you dig as deep as a financial analyst (i.e. getting trade data about China, but exclusively from non-Chinese sources. Other countries. Central Banks. Satellite images. Ship records. And so on) you are getting propaganda and nothing but propaganda. So it doesn't mat…
These same people also gobble up anti America and anti western headlines like fat kids at a buffet. They’re literally gluttonous for this kind of doomer porn. It’s hilarious, and also incredibly sad.