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Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by stunami on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:24AM (#43278886)
Sure, but its turtles all the way down.

How many are hosted on AWS, Google or Microsoft? How many are using Windows or macOS? How many use nvidia, etc.

Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by torlok on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:28AM (#43278914)
There's a size point at which rolling your own infrastructure is worth it, and may get government support. Help grow companies you want to see succeed.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by ssssvd on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:35AM (#43278980)
"Don't rent from Amazon! Buy from Dell, HP, SuperMicro, Cisco, Juniper, Intel and Nvidia instead."

It's all American below AWS/GCP abstractions as well.

Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by AlecSchueler on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:32AM (#43279987)
That's the point, we need to start moving away from that and this is how we make a start.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by OvbiousError on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:34AM (#43278972)
Absence of a (high-level services) cloud provider is a big problem. I hope that changes at some point, but probably impossible to start something like that without measures in place to make the existing offering less attractive.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by ssssvd on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:43AM (#43279058)
Imagine GDPR, but for infra — that's the stuff of nightmares.

"EU Committee on Kubernetes."

By the way, that's exactly what China and Russia did — no AWS, GCP, or Azure there.

Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by GreenWatermelon on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:38AM (#43279012)
Who says it's not all linux and Hetzner/OVH? No need to assume the worsr based on no data.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by meijer on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:29AM (#43278927)
It's not all or nothing.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by BoingBoomTschak on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:27AM (#43278909)
You could say that ASML (Netherlands) and TSMC (Taiwan) are the final turtles though.
Re:Buy European Made. Support European Values by timeon on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:29AM (#43278928)
Yes, but still important question for the future.