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Re:Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) by yubblegum on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:52PM (#48339484)
> And I doubt there ever will be because who would even build it?

My money would be on the French.

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Re:Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) by eastbound on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:30PM (#48339806)
The French are second to everything + they strip naked the CEOs they hate (the Air France event and the series of CEOs taken hostage in the 1990ies) = They would never align themselves to build something that makes money. DailyMotion is 1/1000th what Youtube is; Mistral is 1/1000th what OpenAI is, nothing has changed in 20 years.

Sure France would spend the money. We’d see none of the results.

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Re:Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) by brugidou on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:55PM (#48340019)
They did that already see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudwatt or Numergy.
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Re:Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) by nickv on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:47PM (#48340449)
And Minitel, they had networked computers in people's homes in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel.
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Re:Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025) by yubblegum on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:55PM (#48340544)
And packet switching and arguably a far more capable architecture for internetworking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES

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