• Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    Like they negotiated with China. Oh wait, they hate the EU more than China? Then they do have a problem :)

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      It was China which showed them they are not impressed by their intimidation school yard bully tactics.

      The “problem” is also made up in the first place. There is no deficit if you look at Services and Trades between the US and EU. Just looking at Trade is intellectually dishonest. And it’s a shame that our press isn’t mentioning this more. The EU does in their officiall Comms

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        The only problem with Europe is that we don’t have our own social media (and some services like Microsoft), so to play hardball with tariffing the big tech companies, it would involve some risk that everybody would be forced to spend a few Summer months outdoors touching grass and playing sports in the Sun…and that…that would be unforgivable…

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          We have SUSE Enterprise Linux, we have Collabora Office, we have Matrix, we have Nextcloud, we have OnlyOffice, we have Nextcloud, we have OVH,Scaleway,StackIT etc…

          We could lower our dependence drastically if we wanted. But right now, we don’t, even not in our government

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              I did. The sarcasm went completely beyond me.
              But good point, I guess don’t having asocial media and sticky apps would already be a drastic economic boom and productivity increase on its own

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            Yeah, the Microflaccid and Google stuff we could probably replace, but it probably would require extra people on call to fix bugs and do maintenance to make up for the lost corporate tech support…

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              Lost corporate support?
              You can buy support for all of these products, and those extra people would probably employed here

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                Ok, makes sense, I’m not aware of the free software enterprise-tier stuff.