> It's pretty clear that Linux, or even BSD, is the way forward.

Yeah and in many EU institutions and companies there's been a move to webapps. And in the big ones, like the EU parliament or EU Commission, there are rules: for example webapps must work on every MEP's smartphone, no matter if it's Android or iOS. So those webapps tend to be very portable (they work on any phone and on any desktop/browser combination).

For many "whatever OS + whatever browser" is literally all that's needed. So switching to "Linux + a browser that ships with Linux" is not a showstopper.

People are convinced there's no way out of Microsoft's grip but Windows getting viruses (just like Microsoft's founder btw, like the Epstein files showed) may be a thing of the past for many very soon.

Now I like Anthropic and I'm a very happy paying Google customer: can we please just ditch Microsoft and not the entirety of products made by american companies? Microsoft produces shit but it's not the case of every american company.

> Now I like Anthropic and I'm a very happy paying Google customer: can we please just ditch Microsoft and not the entirety of products made by american companies? Microsoft produces shit but it's not the case of every american company.

That's not what this debate is about. Sovereignty implies that the country keeps running when a hostile company owning the software decides it doesn't want that to happen. The incident with the ICC / ICJ judges investigating Gaza attacks and against Israel resulting in them personally sanctioned by Trump's administration was the wake-up call.

Rule of law in software doesn't exist anymore (when the software is in US' proprietary hands), and that's the threshold that has been crossed and is non negotiable.