Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

Comments

• Octagon9561@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Boycott Google, check out the degoogle communities

  source
• howdy@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  all my homies hate google

  source
• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kent Walker suggested that this initiative would stifle innovation and deny people access to the “best digital tools.”

  Perhaps in specific scientific or engineering situations the “best digital tools” may be needed, but isn’t that just a tiny fraction of the European userbase? How many office workers need bleeding edge tools to make a quarterly report or send an email?

  source

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plus, the whole point in shifting towards open source platforms (besides tech sovereignty) is boosting the development of open source software.

    There’s already open source scientific software. If it’s not as feature rich as a proprietary one that costs thousands a year for one license, then all the more reason to encourage more contributions.

    source
  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh no! Not the innovation! That is the only thing that matters to humanity, and we haven’t got enough innovations already. When will Spoons 2.0 ever come out at this rate?

    source
  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thing is, what is ‘best’ depends on the criteria you apply. If one of them is “allows US govt snooping” or “allows US govt to cut you off whenever” then none of Google’s stuff is ‘the best’.

    source
• BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “why haven’t you thought of our bottom line?!?”

  source
• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “It’ll hurt our bottom line and make us less competitive” said google. “Aren’t you afraid of missing out?”

  FUCK OFF.

  source
• toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Keep going, I’m almost there…

  source
• mracton@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well since Google didn’t slam Europe, it’s not that big of a deal. /lh

  source
• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m more surprised this isn’t Microsoft lol

  source
• Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ya, let’s support competition by sourcing from a monopoly…

  source
• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that the monopoly can’t ralk about competitiveness after 1 year and a half they announced some anti-competitive moves they they wanted to do

  source
• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  According to the Financial Times

  Original article paywalled. Shame because I really wanted to hear how they were going to explain:

  The company warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech companies could harm competitiveness

  source
• Greddan@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Damn. Google and everyone who works there are literal trash of no value.

  source
• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kent Wanker.

  source