Why Microsoft is a national security threat
Why Microsoft is a national security threat
With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer
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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?
- SUSE is an in germany founded company (now in Luxembourg)
- https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
- Not having a government directly develop a "blessed OS" is probably for the better
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.
Wouldn't they just get enterprise SUSE licenses instead? Why bother with openSUSE?
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...).
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.