How does a diagnosis help? I get that an adhd diagnosis opens up pharmaceutical treatment options, but for autism i don’t see anything that would change. Therapy stays therapy and is probably very individualistic with or without the autism label. (I am genuinely curious because I am certainly neurodiverse but diagnosis takes about two years, of mostly waiting and bureacracy, where i live)

It’s why we pay tariffs. Why we enforce US anti circumvention laws. Why we allow big platforms to reduce their taxes to almost nothing. Why we don’t tax based on citizenship, while the us does.

Effectively it does, we are so dependent on thebus in so many ways, whenever we do something they dont like, they threaten to take something away or increase tariffs. In the end europe caves.

That is a much more detailed view. Thank you.

So for Germany (only the federal government, states would be in addition to that) license fees are currently about 500 million € a year, only for microsoft licenses.

For the federal states i only know of schleswig-holstein who saved on 16 million license fees by switching to OSS.

So just by these numbers (no guarantees, i am definitely missing something) it might take a while for europe. Still would be nice if some orange couldn’t turn off our government by pressing a button.

With NOOTS Germany will move toward a less decentralized service with municipalities being able to share data between them more easily. I hope though that BSI pressures for it to be secure by modern standards.