Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court in The Hague, find ourselves locked out of our own mailboxes if we say something that is upsetting to the US government?
This post was written in response to an article in the Financial Times.
Here is a discussion about a more skeptical statement from the open source community on this:
https://feddit.org/post/24450681
But I think it is not either/either. If, for example, European industry wants to have any control over own critical systems, there is no way around investing in knowledge, skill, and infrastructure like real-time Linux.