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  • The Menemen!English
    20•11 months ago

    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?

    • @Takios@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      13•11 months ago

      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…).

      • The Menemen!English
        4•11 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.

      • The Menemen!English
        3•11 months ago

        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.