| ▲ | gsky 5 hours ago |
| Finally Europe grew a spine |
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| ▲ | Leomuck an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Europe as a whole doesn't have or not have a spine.. it'a a huge, complicated accumulation of interests with an insane bureaucratic apparatus behind it. |
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| ▲ | bpavuk 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| still growing, you mean. France is, however significant, just one country. and then there is broader push to FOSS inside Europe, as well as Europe's own sovereign solutions. some attempts were failed, some were successful, but everything is still in progress EDIT: on a second read, this sounded too diminishing of this achievement than I intended. the point is that it's not fully done yet, although it is remarkable that there is, finally, a political will for such actions |
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| ▲ | sdoering 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sadly back in the day the city of Munich caved in (hosting Germany's MS headquarter). They had a good good run with their Linux. But the state of Schleswig-Holstein is pushing for more open source and switching to Libre Office (80% or so done). They talk about that on their Open Source Initiative page [1]. [1]: https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/themen/... (German only) |
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| ▲ | anon291 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They have a committee to decide whether to plan to grow one. Maybe once they're done funding the war in Ukraine, they'll make a decision. |
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| ▲ | breppp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Less so against China or Iran, presumably Europe will find itself on the "right side of history" yet again soon enough |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | At least so against Israel and other countries actively engaging in open warfare against sovereign nations, as a European I'm very happy we're not getting pulled into those senseless conflicts. | |
| ▲ | watwut 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Europe does not need to join war of the Trumps whim just because king demands it. | | |
| ▲ | breppp 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I am talking about actively hindering the war effort while getting closer to Iran, a country that repeatedly kidnapped europeans, or caving in for China again and again. Europe has always managed to make the wrong choice historically, and that's how it still continues |
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| ▲ | redsocksfan45 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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