EU OS
eu-os.gitlab.io
Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

It’s only a proof of concept at the moment and I don’t know if it will see mass adoption but it’s a step in the right direction to ending reliance on US-based Big Tech.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    20 hours ago

    Depending on who the group is … it is good to first do a thorough check on who the group is … it can just as likely be a group of scam artists that are riding on some nationalism band wagon happening around the world these days.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      10·
      19 hours ago

      They could, and if I was an EU government entity, I would do my homework on what they were offering, even if they were acting 100% in good faith.

      However, helping governments get away from the clutches of the likes of Apple and Microsoft seems like a noble goal, and if this idea spurs that change regardless of the adoption of this distro, I think it will have been a net positive.

      • Viri4thus@feddit.org
        15·
        19 hours ago

        Government is only in the clutches of MS because MS bribes officials to maintain their cancerous software as a staple everywhere in Europe… Hungary is one of a few quite famous cases of bribery.

        There’s no depth to my loathing of MS and its illegal and anti-competitive practices.

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          4·
          18 hours ago

          It’s going to have to start at the local level. They’re usually the ones that have less budget and less influence to sell, anyway.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        18 hours ago

        If they are honest about what they are suggesting … the first step would be to be explicitly clear about who THEY are and WHO they represent.

        I really don’t care that much about the technical side of things because I’m not that technically knowledgeable. However, I am more apt to trust the judgment or recommendations of prominent people in the industry (that are not corporately attached or controlled) … I would also trust public institutions or journalists or academics with a track record of social advocacy and wanting to represent people instead of corporations or businesses. I would also trust politicians or political advocates that mostly represent people and public institutions.

        I really don’t put my faith in any one person no matter who they claim to be to just say they want to build something meaningful and give me no information on their background, who they worked for, who they represent or what kind of people or organizations they associate with. There have been far too many ‘good natured’ technocrats and technology people from the past decade or two who claim to say that they want to change the world for the better and then end up wanting to burn it all down for a profit.