• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    7 months ago

    It’s quite crazy when you think about it. Many of us use Gmail or Outlook for personal and professional communication, but imagine if the U.S. government, under Trump, decided to shut down the email accounts of Macron or any other European leader simply because they disagreed with something. I believe this could significantly speed up the shift away from big tech companies in Europe and potentially around the globe.

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      7 months ago

      If they are using that, then they deserve it. So does my “we ♥️ Microsoft” government.

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        7 months ago

        Germany’s Military is now 10 years bound to Google cloud and some of our government administrations has ditched Linux and are going back to Microsoft 🤷‍♂️ Fails everywhere in a time, where we should go full open source and be independent to US

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          7 months ago

          I guess pressure from corporations and their governments is the culprit. Also local politicians mostly don’t know a shit about IT.