• The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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    8 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?

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      8 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…).

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        8 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.