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Coming after the Austrian military ditched MS Office (365, Copilot, whatever it's called now) for LibreOffice [0]. Similar stuff going on in Denmark and to some extent in Germany [1]. Way to go!

[0] https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-off...

[1] https://cybernews.com/tech/microsoft-why-germany-open-source...

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I do wonder whether a lot of Europe is starting to decouple from U.S. tech.

Yes, there's a big push towards "Digital Sovereignty". The EU just now published a compact guideline for IT purchasing in regards to this: https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/09579818-64a6...

It's slow going, but it's atleast going in that direction.

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