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[–] First@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Politicians always side with big business.

That's not true at all as far as EU tech company regulations are concerned. Examples: laws for GDPR, right to repair, consolidated charging ports, minimum size & pricing roof on roaming data - and related fines for disobeying them.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is a German ARD Video about Open Source. The EU Parlament is big in with Microsoft products and don't want to change because they are idiots.

[–] marksson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same goes for local authorities. Munich even had its own Linux distro, then M$ opened a big office in the city and suddenly whole FOSS project was abandoned and everything runs on Windows.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Noone had issues, everything was fine. Everyone was against using Windows in the parlament vote. The president or smth who was part of Microsoft had the full decision and just went with it. Fucking creepy. Humanity was a mistake.