@ronago @veronica

France Shows Windows the Door!
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The Government of France has launched a sweeping initiative to switch from Windows to Linux. This move will save France, Billions of Euros each year, improve security, and move towards Sovereignty.

https://newsgroup.site/france-government-linux-migration-windows-2026/
India should follow this excellent example.

Microsoft ( MSFT ) is expected to be a in a death spiral, as more and more countries decide to save money.

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My article on Microsoft:
https://rant.li/ashwin/castles-made-of-sand

#Earth #EqualRights #Justice #FreeSoftware #Linux #Windows #Software
#MSFT #Microsoft
#India #DigitalSovreignty #Freedom #Liberty #Security #Tech
#Stocks #StockMarket #StockPicks
#France #Europe #EuroStack
#Government #GovernmentEfficiency #GovernmentSpending
#Finance
#bangalore #GovernmentOfIndia

Франція переходить на Linux: масова міграція держустанов 2026

Франція розпочала масовий перехід з Windows на Linux у держустановах. Що це означає для Європи, України та безпеки даних — аналіз і практичний досвід 2026.

News Group

Just think what £774m could do to the #NHS if it wasn't being trousered by #Microsoft.

#DigitalSovreignty

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/nhs_benchmarking_microsoft/

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round

: Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement

The Register
@nibushibu まあ、日本人の言論の自由を守ろうとしたら、零細であれ日本企業が独自にソフトやみんなが使うネット・コミュニティを作れないと無理なのでしょうけど、政府の権力で出来るのか?という問題もありそうだなというのを思いました。 #OSS #DigitalSovreignty
The story isn’t really the perineal #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop, but rather the speed run to #DigitalSovreignty and how that will change Tech & it’s relationship with society. #AI #BigTech #Privacy (Viewers in the #UK will Owe their souls to the Company Store.)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/
France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch

France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

TechCrunch

@gokayburuc
As an ordinary user, should I be planning to migrate my mobile devices to LineageOS or GrapheneOS? As an active stylus user, I'd have to give up my S22 Ultra and get an Moto G Stylus on LineageOS and trade my Tab S9 for a Pixel Tablet (GrapheneOS). Any comments or suggestions welcome.

#keepandroidopen #googleplay #android #digitalsovreignty

Highly recommend **Can Canada Regain Its Digital Sovereignty? | TVO Today Live**
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxJf1QbBQQ) panel discussion on
#digitalsovreignty from
@TVOntario.

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) and enshittification get honourable mentions but the panelists failed to mention the remedies of
(1) Strengthening anti-monopoly regulations and enforcement, and
(2) Legislation to require interoperability for social media platforms.

Can Canada Regain Its Digital Sovereignty? | TVO Today Live

YouTube

An online event scheduling tool that is E2EE, privacy-focused and has a URL that makes me giggle.

https://cabbage.gay/

#Privacy #DigitalSovreignty #Meetings

Home - cabbage.gay

An end to end encrypted meeting poll app.

Digitalisierung als Demokratieprojekt: MV will digital souverän werden

Für die Verwaltung von Land und Kommunen scheint eine Welt ohne Microsoft und Google möglich. In Kooperation mit Schleswig-Holstein will Mecklenburg-Vorpommern die öffentliche Verwaltung auf unabhängige Lösungen mit offenen Standards umstellen.

ndr.de

🇩🇪 🇪🇺  At the @OpenForumEurope EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026, Dirk Schrödter @dirkschroedter Minister of Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, calls for an end to government decisions that "export public money, and import long-term dependency".

https://opencode.de/en

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Europe #EU #DigitalSovreignty #OFE #FOSDEM

@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty Excellent! I live in Nova Scotia, and Halifax just transitioned most of their social media to Bluesky. I'd like to pressure them to at least set up bridgy so they can start building #DigitalSovreignty, and work on the ones who haven't transitioned off X to transition to Mastodon instead.

Are you planning to create or host any resources to help municipal transitions? Are you open to tracking participation at the municipal level?