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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative (www.euractiv.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38271574

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.

German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.

For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

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[–] 48 points 11 months ago

The ICC is one of those orgs where not having their data sitting on silicon valley servers is a big friggin' deal, and they should have probably thought of that years ago.

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    [–] 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I look forward to a Europe fully on its own cloud and software stacks or at least FOSS options.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    How about own cloud stack on nextcloud?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I haven't tried NextCloud but it looks more like a hosted application stack like M365 rather than a general purpose cloud like AWS/Azure/gcloud. What would be really cool is a homegrown cloud that emulated AWS/Azure/gcloud API's so that you could easily port existing applications over.

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    • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Let's hope that this process will continue even after Trump

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Has anyone used OpenDesk? Looks like they have a community edition

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