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Note that this is only about European governments choosing to not use US software.

>>Burnin+(OP)
Yeah, and once the precedent is settled, you can bet that the private sector will follow, and give birth to a bunch of local service companies to deploy and support those solutions in an healthier and fairer manner than the current GSuite/MSOffice duopoly.

>>Burnin+(OP)
You can be very sure that millions of Europeans and large numbers of businesses are finding alternatives.

>>Burnin+(OP)
Yes, and it's clear European governments are just catching up to the sentiment of European people.

>>melesi+K5
Can we? Do you have any numbers to back this up?

>>ezst+d4
Is this true though? There are tons of policies and procedures the US government has required for decades that never got adopted by the private sector.

>>DaSHac+8F
OS will be cheaper. No monopoly rendite + development across more shoulders.

>>DaSHac+2F
Not direct numbers. But you can see r/BuyFromEU has 795K Weekly visitors. That is A LOT. In comparison, r/OpenAI has 676K Weekly visitors and r/webdev has 691K Weekly visitors.

>>melesi+K5
I was going to say 'No way, profit > idealistic moral virtues'. But I could totally see Europe knee capping themselves. Look at how their food is inferior to the US because they stick to tradition.

I can totally see themselves doing this out of pride/humiliation.