USA just switched off starlink in Ukraine. They blocked Microsoft accounts and visa cards from ICC members. You can't rely on USA tech. It's got a killswitch and a madman ready to push the button.

…and the Dutch

Now if they also directed the license cost savings back toward funding their newly chosen oss projects, we'd be golden.

It's always nice to see Microsoft get kicked in the balls.

I agree. Digital sovereignty is important for the EU. The less we are in the pocket of the US the better.

Digital anarchy is important for the regular people. The more you take technology in your own hands, the less you are at the whims of centralised services.

Microslop is a security risk. An OS with a backdoor isn't useful for anything but gaming.

Kudos to the Netherlands, the Oranje made the correct decision.

Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor's APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.

Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor's APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.

I wonder if the tech companies will realize their bending to Trump is going to shoot them in the ass

They should consider LibreOffice if they don’t need cloud features.

Oh my God! How are they going to work without MS Teams?

More of this please!!!

Ther's only two things I hate in this world, people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the... no, wait! I love the Dutch!