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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by maelito on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:13AM (#43769744)
> Which is that Apple and Microsoft are the only real system vendors

Google's Android is the largest OS by usage.

But yes, you're right. When you try to use a non-US OS in France you end up buying US hardware and erasing your data on the next LineageOS release.

We need vendors.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by constantcrying on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:19AM (#43769764)
>Google's Android is the largest OS by usage.

I am primarily thinking about government institutions and corporations. There Microsoft is used almost everywhere.

Mobile phones are a secondary issue in my opinion, also because Android is already much more open than Windows.

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Re:Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Publi... by Flatterer3544 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:05AM (#43770359)
There's an attempt to move away from Microsoft enterprise tools, e.g. 365+ ecosystem.

See opendesk.eu , it's a platform collaborating with many EU open-source developers, and it's funded primarily by the German government.

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