Brussels pushes ‘buy European’ procurement plan
Brussels pushes ‘buy European’ procurement plan
Great, start with excluding Microsoft! Oh, didn't you just say that is impossible? /s
With the shipping containers of money that goes that way great open source alternatives could have been funded to easily get on their level.
The Dutch government at some point after XP was phased out paid millions (which came down to hundreds per computer) for extended support on just that.
It's so frustrating that most companies in Europe go for the three biggest cloud providers. It's such a shame that we don't have a MS, Google or AWS scale cloud provider in Europe.
Hetzner has gotten some real progress, but does not seem to be the default option, or even considered for most companies
Americans want and have spyware in te very core of our infrastructure. Look at what happened when they offered to help Greece with their comms for the olympics, they killed a network designer who found their spyware.
Critical industries should use EU tech. Preferably opensource and preferably not by a monopoly.
As a Canadian I have seen our government crumble to for-profit entities. The issue is that a lot of governments do not want the liability of something if it fails.
Will EU countries that planned to use open source options and their own staff, already on the payroll, still likely create a procurement plan for maintenance and ongoing tech support?
For things like government data, they sort of have to run that infrastructure. I certainly do not want my tax data or the like on a Google server or similar. Also people will blame the government anyway, if something goes wrong.
However non government entities can certainly develop software. There is a lot of it used by governments, which is also of interest for private entities and having that sort of tech support is interesting to companies as well. Also it being open source creates competition for getting those sort of contracts. As multiple companies can work on the same project.