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Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.
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Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.
Well, you can safely store it with trusted allies….
Ah yes the ever so reliable us !
Don’t give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it’s akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It’s giving part of yourself away.
Seems like a natural response of Europe to Trump’s policies. I’m not sure why anyone would be surprised.
Blame the right wing you rich corporations empowered with your self destructive lobbying and weakening of regulation. You and your billionaire counterparts’ push to the right has broken down the very order that brought you the wealth and stability that centered world markets on the U.S. Your reckless pursuit of endless growth will kill the world order that created America’s prosperity. These corporation drank too much of their own Kool-aid.
Microsoft should be getting worried about Linux.
Yes, but currently Linux isn’t a valid option for a lot of users, because a lot of professional and corporation apps, apart of most games are Windows only. To rise Linux is needed to change this first. The only alternative for this issue is maybe using instead eg. WindowsX, something like an “de-microsofted” Windows. Linux is certainly the best alternative, but also has some drawbacks, like too much different distros not always compatible one with another, depending on the distro also often an deficient support and maintance, certain driver problems, among others. Not good if an still minority OS is above to diversified, which cause a lot of problems for the devs of software. To dethrone Windows as leader of the market does it still need a lot of work in many environments.
I, a Linux user, agree that there is work to be done, but I disagree with the “this needs to change first” on proprietary software availability. Specifically the “first” bit.
Let me explain why: The problem of software availability is a chicken and egg problem. No users on an OS = no developers make stuff for it = no users because there is no software.
With Wine/Proton, Valve “fixed” this issue for gamers. This “opened the floodgates”, and at least in one group of computer users, made Linux viable as a daily driver. People who play video games are diverse, and have different needs for software outside gaming, so this change grew the userbase of every category of software in Linux, not just games.
With an actual userbase comes both a community of people, who are all potential contributors for FOSS, whether that’s programming, docs, or reporting issues. And a marketshare for businesses to target (and profit off of).
The ball has clearly started rolling, Linux is gaining marketshare at a pace it hasn’t seen before. The bigger the userbase gets, the more software will work overall. The more software, the more people who can switch.
There isn’t a single definable point where software availability suddenly makes a userbase appear, these two grow together.
So yes, there is work to be done, but no, it doesn’t “need to change first”.
A lot of people find out after using Linux that it’s perfect for their daily tasks. A lot of other people never bother, and thus never find out. With Windows 10 EOL coming up, and MS pushing more and more onto users (like recall and copilot), a portion of people forced to switch will look for alternatives, or will try out Linux because they’ve heard of it as an alternative.
As for your other arguments:
too much different distros not always compatible one with another
Which used to be true, but is significantly better than even a couple years ago. “Standardized” packaging like Flatpak makes a ton of software available on all distros, ensuring compatibility. Valve took a shot at this too with Steam Linux Runtime, but this hasn’t seen any use outside Steam.
depending on the distro also often an deficient support and maintance,
For the vast majority of distros, no. Though I agree that we (the community as a whole) should stop accepting terrible resources for finding Linux distros (like “top 10 distros” lists that make no sense to a new user) and push for better ones.
certain driver problems, among others.
Which is being solved too. “driver problems” is exclusively Nvidia, but the issues are (very slowly) being fixed (by nvidia), and distros are offering easy options for getting the Nvidia drivers. Nouveau/NVK is also on the slow cooker, but I trust it’ll come out great. “Among others” is not a valid reason.
Not good if an still minority OS is above to diversified, which cause a lot of problems for the devs of software.
Which fits into the point of Flatpaks for proprietary software, and highlights where FOSS truly shines. Flatpaks standardize the runtime, proprietary software only needs to support this one standard to support all distros. FOSS devs can target whatever they want for their project. If “works on my machine” is good enough for them, so be it. (People will always complain about stuff like this though). If a distro wants to officially provide some open source software to its users, it has to be packaged. With the packaging process for a distro, modifications might need to be made, which can often be contributed back to upstream.
To dethrone Windows as leader of the market does it still need a lot of work in many environments.
It’s a lot closer than you think. It’s already a viable daily driver for many. The biggest blocker is the fact that MS is a global megacorp, with advertising, OEM “support”, and a lot of money to “persuade” people and companies to use Windows.
OEM support also ties into the whole “choosing a distro”. I trust that even the worst OEMs choose at least a supported distro, which takes all pressure away from the user. When Linux marketshare grows enough for OEMs to provide the option, the least technical users going to a brick and mortar store will be presented with “100$ cheaper, but looks different than your current computer”. If Windows UI keeps being as inconsistent as it currently is, it would have similar impact for non-technical users going between Windows N and N+1 as it does going to Linux.
they are literally doing that with wine and proton.
most peoples use cases are covered in the workplace. most “windows-only” games work better than on windows sometimes.
“We will store backup copies of our code in a secure repository in Switzerland, and we will provide our European partners with the legal rights needed to access and use this code if needed for this purpose.”
If Microsoft is going to actually risk giving access to their source code then they’re really scared!
Pretty sure that they already shared it with copilot, so I’m guessing that it’s only a matter of time until everyone has a copy…
Good, fuck microsoft.
Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.
What test?
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
In Options in the search bar you can filter the country US or EU
Oh I see. That’s just measuring tracking scripts on websites. It’s not particularly relevant to what is discussed in the article (data sovereignty of cloud providers).
Yes, but you can also proof it, checking and even blocking the traffic in the OS, eg. with Portmaster. Not a big Problem. Different to MacOS, Windows permits to make it reasinable private in the settings, the only problem is that a lot of settings (in total over 200 setting points and registry entries) are indocumented and hidden. The OS as such is only another modified UNIX fork, the worse part are the apps. telemetries and services added by M$. The gutted, mencioned WindowsX, shows it, also mine DIY version of Windows11 24H2 which I use, with only <700 MB in RAM, after eliminating all this MS crap.
Again, nothing to do with Microsoft’s cloud platform.
But a lot with it’s TOS and PP in any MS products and services in the EU. MS can’t act in the EU the same way as in the US.
But really, I read the whole article and there’s nothing mentioned about a blacklight test.
You’re going to link me to youtube shorts?
Please, no.
You can just get a userscript that redirects it to become a normal video.
I could also edit the URL manually, it’s just an obnoxious way to respond to a question.
They were just trying to be funny, but I also wonder what it means.
I hadn’t seen that sketch in a little while, I was pleasantly surprised to see they added 14 additional audio tracks with translations. I wish that was more common, making humour more international like that.
