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

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.

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DaSHacka 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	snowpid 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OS will be cheaper. No monopoly rendite + development across more shoulders.

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melesian 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can be very sure that millions of Europeans and large numbers of businesses are finding alternatives.

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DaSHacka 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Can we? Do you have any numbers to back this up?

	▲	johanyc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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alamortsubite 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, and it's clear European governments are just catching up to the sentiment of European people.