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Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by kinther to c/technology
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[–] menemen 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The US at least has some degree of control over Microsoft. How much worse is that the EU is still not developing an own OS/distro?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
  1. SUSE is an in germany founded company (now in Luxembourg)
  2. https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
  3. Not having a government directly develop a "blessed OS" is probably for the better
[–] menemen 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am not talking about a OS for the general public, but specifically for the administration.

And this will work much better with a unified attempt. If the EU would be taking OpenSuse for this, this would basically be the end of OpenSuses independence... I'd like it to be GNU/Linux based though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't they just get enterprise SUSE licenses instead? Why bother with openSUSE?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There were grassroots movements like the Limux project (Munich using a custom Linux distribution). But that got shut down by Microsoft bribery (not confirmed, but MS did build a new headquarters in Munich...).

[–] menemen 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, that was a shame. But I really think we'd need a shared OS for all administration units of the EU (from EU level down to munipiality levels). Would be much easier as the private sector could also adjust to it.