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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by Teever on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:38PM (#46877666)
Solidworks is produced by a company that is owned by the Dassault Group.

There is always a connection between the military industrial complex of a nation and the state.

If France feels that it is an existential threat they will not let the design and maintence of their weapons be dependent on an operating system produced by a company based out of a country that has threatened them.

I'm not saying that this will happen. I'm saying that should this happen you know France is serious about eliminating dependencies on unreliable and threatening countries.

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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by bigfudge on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:09PM (#46878033)
EU have access to Windows source code. Presumably if the shit really hit the fan we'd have a European build without all the spy/crapware added? Not much of a consolation given we'd have to be on the brink of WW3 for it to happen...
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by LostMyWords on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:19PM (#46879484)
I'm out of the loop, how does the EU have access to Windows source code?
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by theragra on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:07AM (#46883878)
I think even Russia had it at some point. Microsoft is ready to allow it, if it is needed to convince state structures using Windows.
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by irishcoffee on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:38PM (#46879039)
500k and 3 really smart people can get solidworks running under wine in a few months. The barrier of entry seems pretty low.
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by fvrther on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:12AM (#46882109)
Great remark, I will add that Solidworks is more intended for small CAD work, industrials usually use Catia for deeper CAD work, which is also owned by the Dassault Group. Both are developed for Windows.
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