The EU's Pursuit of Digital Sovereignty

In this video I discuss how 2 European nations (Switzerland and Germany) are starting to mandate the use of open source software within their governments and why other nations should do the same.

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[GerManBearPig]

Funny story about the Munich government: they spent several years trying so switch from windows to open source Linux systems and just when they were finished and finally had everything running, Microsoft came and said "I'll set up a big Microsoft headquarters in your city, would you please be so kind and switch back to Microsoft for all your government servers and computers pretty please"

Lol and behold, munich immediately switched everything back to Microsoft systems because of money and "lobbying" aka br1bery

[nonsense]

Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

[simplexicated]

If this is proven to work other nations will follow.

[zedtrek]

This should be enforced at EU level. We should stop using software owned by foreign massive corporations.

[IdAefixBE]

French "Gendarmerie" (civil police but with military structure and status) already have been fully open-source since 2005. They even have their own fork of Ubuntu (GendBuntu).
In a documentary from the french public TV about Microsoft's lobbying in France, I remember a high rank officer explaining that they don't like to brag about it not to put to shame the other institutions (police, health, government, etc) but that they knew for facts it ended up being more reliable, safer and much cheaper than it is for anyone using Microsoft products...
But they also explained how massive lobbying work from Microsoft and explicit support from the US gvt makes it harder to make the move.

[kofiy]

NOT TAX DOLLARS BUT TAX EUROS 💥💥💥💥 EUROPE 💥💥💥 WTF IS A GALON 💥💥

[xmeo]

That is the funniest pronunciation of Schleswig Holstein I have ever heard.

[WolfmanDude]

The consumer protection (expecially the recent right to repair movements) and the privacy laws actually made me happy to live here in the EU and not in the US. A few years ago I thought the US was a state based on maximum freedom. Now I realise this freedom only really applies to companies and not to normal people.

[lucpoldis]

Switzerland is not in the EU, only in Europe lol. Still, this is important stuff and a very informative video!

[MrJhwan]

All hail the downfall of microshaft win-blows.

[Alias_Anybody]

Friendly reminder that 90% of all public pencil pushers don't use any Office functions you can't find in the quick options of Libre Office. And those that use like 5 custom macros - can't their IT department just rewrite them, once?

[notyetdeleted]

I have been using libre office to complete work for school.
My favorite part is opening microsoft office files without having to do anything at all.
It aggravates me professors give you material in what for most would need money to access.

[yash]

0:47
MS Office -> LibreOffice
MS Outlook -> Thunderbird
MS Exchange -> Open Exchange
MS Sharepoint -> NextCloud
MS Windows -> GNU+Linux

[jreseriesenjoyer]

I live in Schleswig holstein and my school has Linux and FOSS only, we even have deveolped a software on our own to manage timetables and such stuff

[energo]

Now we need to fight subscription based products. Software you buy, you should own

In Finland it's the opposite from what I noticed, plenty of home grown closed source solutions and Microsoft usage. What worries me quite much is the false knowledge that is spread against for example email. Their are companies selling "secure" messages solution that sell message services to provide more security when sending messages, however they only provide transport and not end-to-end encryption.

[augustday]

Imagine the utopia we'd be living in right now if our tax dollars went towards open source projects instead of ESG grants.

[matze]

The german state Thüringen currently builds its own datacenter also with opensource technologies like openstack as a replacement for cloud providers like azure, aws, etc. for all government entities to host their services (like nextscloud, etc.).

[ANJING_SITUMORANG]

Switzerland is not EU nation, it is European nation but not in EU.

[namesaredumb]

i never would have thought that Mental Outlaw would ever say the name Schleswieg-Holstein. MY HOME STATE 😂