• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    12 hours ago

    What is EU doing to get rid of MS? I know individual countries are rolling out alternative tools for their public administration, but EU? I haven’t heard anything.

    EU supports some open source projects, not just the ones competing with MS tools. Most projects promoted as “European alternative to X” are private, EU based companies, not backed by EU in any way. I might be wrong but I think EU is not in the software development game at all. They try to regulate US companies and they try to create the right conditions for private companies in EU to grow but they don’t work on any replacements themselves. And I think it would be weird for EU to do it. Individual countries should be doing it.

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      12 hours ago

      I misspoke, I just meant to refer to the various countries that have been working on it without having to look up which ones it was. You’re right though

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        10 hours ago

        That’s fair, I guess I’m overly sensitive about the “EU” vs “EU members” difference. Sometimes it’s very important, in this case not so much.