Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost
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In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no

The world should wake up from tech dependence. Let the EU massively invest in FOSS.

Edit: as raised by comments, my title was not incorrect but did omit that it’s actually the US that imposed sanctions, to which MS chose to comply. Changed the title.

  • drewcarreyfan@lemm.eeEnglish
    49·
    1 month ago

    Just speaking as someone in the field, you would be surprised at how many IT decisions happen the way they do because nobody wants to be the one who gets called when an ornery geriatric complains that LibreOffice doesn’t have the ‘mail merge’ button in the right place.

    The old saying goes, “nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco.”

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      1 month ago

      You are absolutely right, and I can understand that for a company IT department, but for public institutions, there are so many factors that speak for using open source software.
      Public institutions have requirements of for instance transparency private businesses don’t have.
      Here universities have been aware of this for all of those 20+ years, and usually the ones that advice governments come from universities.
      But somehow monetary interests comes in between, and lobby their expensive proprietary solutions. And that’s the real problem I think, proprietary vendors have loads of money for lobbying, while open source has almost zero.

      The old saying goes, “nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco.”

      That would be IBM, and that saying is from way before Cisco was even founded.