pabs31d ago

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

https://www.xda-developers.com/frances-government-ditching-windows-for-linux/

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk

The ministries have until the fall to find a solution.

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Show threadcasey21d ago
But Linux is US tech? Isn't the main guy American?
Show threadmirpa
It is open source. Many companies which contribute to it are American, but nobody from America can tell you what you can or cannot do with it - unlike Microsoft or Apple with their proprietary OS being forced by US government.
Apr 11 at 11:18amWeb
Show threadrzerowan1d ago

Funnily enough there is some level of control that can be exerted by the US gov via the distros (at least the major ones - see legalese restrictions on Redhat/Ubuntu etc when you want to download , stating the various US gov laws/sanctions that they follow) and also via the kernel - i think some time back Russian kernel maintainers were removed.

So Open source it may be , however there are still pressure points that can be used. I believe this is one of the main reasons RISCV foundation moved to Europe.