For Effective 'Finlandisation' (Digital Sovereignty) Finland Needs to Think Like GNU (Software Freedom), Not Linux (Openwashing Source, Plus LLM Slop and Killswitches)
NVIDIA staff (formerly Microsoft) opposes real security; the aim is control by large American vendors
What is 'Finlandisation'? The idea that the country can control its own destiny (related to self-determination). Nokia goes against this, as we noted this morning. Nokia became Microsoft (US) proxy and patent troll.
Is Finland adopting GNU/Linux for software freedom or some other reasons? Linux, the kernel, started in Finland, but it is not about freedom. GNU/Linux in Finland can be about freedom, but mostly owing to GNU and the GPL. "For Finnish institutions," Sompi (from Finland) told us, "free" always means "gratis". It's about cost.
Not long-term costs, just immediate costs.
An associate then argued that there seems to be an allergy there (in Finland and nearby nations) to self-determination and freedom.
Past generations, now dead, were known for 'sisu' but the ones currently active and in their prime or approaching their prime are more infamous for folding like a cheap card table on such matters.
There are exceptions, but they are usually hunted down and gotten out of the way by the larger group.
Again, it comes down to the defectors that the hostile foreign interests have been able to get burrowed into schools and government.
"Now, lately," we got told, "the national policy of 'Finlandisation' has been mostly removed from regular politics. I'd say there is no longer need to continue such a policy within ICT. Indeed, there is now a greater need than ever before to end the acquisition of sub-standards and not-fit-for-purpose products and services. In other words, the Finlandisation of ICT can end now but only if the Microsofters are dealt with and removed from positions where they can continue to do harm to the nation." █