Submit Your Suggestions for EU's Embrace of Software Freedom by Tomorrow
Time to leave GAFAM (US) hegemony behind
As someone has put it (one among 1,000+ bits of feedback so far): "The reasons for dependency on foreign proprietary solutions are systemic. The causes are various: from inertia and ignorance to market effects and bribery."
As that same person, Peter Bex, put it in his Web site: "The reasons for dependency on foreign proprietary solutions are systemic. The causes are various: from inertia and ignorance to market effects and bribery. The solutions must be equally systemic: from education to policy and funding, all points must be attacked in order to succeed. This is the only way we can get rid of our dependency on non-EU software."
Tomorrow is the last day to say more (to contact your authorities if you live in Europe):
We wrote about it last week, as did other sites.
There's a strong push in Europe against GAFAM, and against the M (Microsoft) in particular.
The company isn't selling good things or licensing working systems. Its services go offline a lot, there are back doors, and so on and so forth.
Some hours ago someone pointed out: "Under Nutella , MS has become one of the most corrupt IT companies in the world and is going the IBM path all the way , one of the few IT companies (Another one is ORACLE) that blackmails customers to go to Azure otherwise they'll have higher licensing costs with their MS SW , everybody has MS Licenses in their shop. They even have tricked governments in EU with supposeldy data centers , to be delivered in 6 to 7 years who know WTF the world will be in 7 years . When a company start to twist customers b....ls to buy your stuff , the decline has started .."
Another new comment (likely from the same person) said: "When you force your products and services to customers , the decline is inevitable. Some will succumb , but the majority will have started their plan for a way out , this is MS under Nutella , lies , blacmail , severe corruption and arrogance . Buckle up"
Like the US President, Microsoft is just blackmailing people (even nations) to do whatever it wants. Sometimes it "works", but at what cost?
"the fact that WIN 11 is a pos os nobody wants is another reason," said the latest comment there:
Vista 11 has been a failure because after half a decade not many people use it; in the US its market share is measured at only 14% today or this past week:
Of course Microsoft will cheat and lie. What is the general public going to do about it? Contact your authorities. █
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