• MangoCats@feddit.it
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    18 hours ago

    particularly in Europe, where there is a growing desire to break free from the US SaaS stranglehold, using open source software.

    I’m sorry, but it took EXTREME provocation to get Europe to start to talk about moving, again. Previous starts to move to open source software across Europe have mostly faltered and reverted to the comfort of handing cash to foreign companies.

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      18 hours ago

      Because it was always so wonderfully easy to do nothing. Costs have risen, and new realities are increasingly being created in both politics and the economy: in France, Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein and so many other places, large and small.