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Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by dijit on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @01:09PM (#42625392)
I know of exactly 0 European businesses they use free open source software for their office suites.

Z-E-R-O.

I don’t even think companies have their own mailservers anymore, its mostly gsuite and microsoft office 365; people aren’t even hosting business critical applications in Europe unless compliance forces them- let alone using European made tools to do it.

Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by LtWorf on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:02PM (#42627405)
I'm sure there is more to life than using "open source office suite"
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by dijit on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:08PM (#42627490)
I'm not sure I understood your point.

There's a lot more to life than a lot of things, I'm not really trying to discuss personal fulfilment, moreso mentioning that there's no reality where we can get by with European technology right now, and if the US decided to sanction a european country that country would suffer a pretty significant (trillion-euro most likely) shock to productivity, as not only would they need to find new tools and retrain, but they would also lose all their mail and documents.

Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by LtWorf on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:17PM (#42628915)
I'm trying to inform you that there are other jobs other than filling in data in excel.

If the USA sanctioned europe (lol) we'd be completely fine, don't worry.