not sure about ready… sure there’s a will
Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives
Submitted 8 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://proton.me/blog/european-alternative-us-tech-survey
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akmur@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Mihies@programming.dev 7 hours ago
Not even sure there is that much will on politicians side. I hope there is, but they are mostly ignorant (judging from politicians in my country) and wouldn’t distinguish between Word and Windows. They might be interested if there are elections and public pushes for it. But once elected then it’s another song based on US stick and carrot. Mostly sticks from this administration. But I really do hope we start to move and now is the best time possible. Also recently there was data that German Federal Administration is paying Microsoft something like: 2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro 2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro 2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro The trend is not encouraging, isn’t it, and those are insane numbers - imagine what could we have for that amount with OSS. There is another neglected area - computer education in elementary school is practically non-existent and tiny-existent in middle school in my country while MS is subsidizing software for government and specially education sector. And so the circle of is closed.
akmur@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
are those millions? am I reading that right?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Yeah, a proton blog… Not going to trust that much
bourrelier@jlai.lu 5 hours ago
Hi ! I’m switching away from US tech. I started using the proton solutions. Do you have something against this company ? It’s a genuine question.
I see a lot of options from European companies and being based in Switzerland and having encryption. Proton seemed to be a good way to start.
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
The Proton CEO Andy Yen tweeted support for Trump’s Department of Justice pick last year and a shitstorm suddenly appeared.
It was a pretty tone-deaf tweet, but it most certainly doesn’t mean that Proton or its CEO support the Trump regime.
Below is an article analyzing the entire episode, and before that a direct quote from the article if you want to get the basic idea with out reading the entire thing…
“However, being disillusioned with one party on one issue doesn’t mean that all of a sudden Andy Yen changed all of his stances and that now he’s actually pro-Republican or pro-MAGA. All of the evidence gathered suggests the exact opposite.”
atropa@piefed.social 6 hours ago
No thanks proton ,prefer mailbox , posteo and mullvad
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Good. Start by introducing a viable smartphone OS, because right now it’s down to Apple and Google, both from the US.
Linux is a great place to start. Android is based on Linux. Even a fork of Android that doesn’t give Google any data would be a good place to start, but relying on AOSP — Google’s open source repository — isn’t ideal.
morto@piefed.social 4 hours ago
I’d say the priority should be to have hardware that allows changing the os, just like pcs. We already have a lot of functional mobile OSes, but with locked hardware, we’re still stuck with google and apple