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constantcrying ◴[] No.43769695[source]
The EU and member states are currently putting in quite a bit of money trying to limit their exposure to US tech companies.

Looking at the list of projects you can see that they support a huge variety of projects, with all kind of different scopes and intentions.

While I think that the overarching goal is good and I would like to see them succeed, I also think that they fail to address the single most important issue. Which is that Apple and Microsoft are the only real system vendors, corporations who can offer an entire integrated system and aren't just either single components or many different components packaged together, but without the interaction necessary to compete with Apple or Microsoft.

The funding goes to many, but small projects, but this means the single biggest issue, actually deploying an open source system over an entire organization remains unaddressed.

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1. maelito ◴[] No.43769744[source]
> Which is that Apple and Microsoft are the only real system vendors

Google's Android is the largest OS by usage.

But yes, you're right. When you try to use a non-US OS in France you end up buying US hardware and erasing your data on the next LineageOS release.

We need vendors.

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2. constantcrying ◴[] No.43769764[source]
>Google's Android is the largest OS by usage.

I am primarily thinking about government institutions and corporations. There Microsoft is used almost everywhere.

Mobile phones are a secondary issue in my opinion, also because Android is already much more open than Windows.

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3. Flatterer3544 ◴[] No.43770359[source]
There's an attempt to move away from Microsoft enterprise tools, e.g. 365+ ecosystem.

See opendesk.eu , it's a platform collaborating with many EU open-source developers, and it's funded primarily by the German government.