https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned Microsoft 365 cloud. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundation (LF) released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe. In it, the nonprofit, pro-open-source organization revealed that 94% of European Union (EU) organizations say digital sovereignty is important, with 61% considering it very important. As Thierry Carrez, the Linux Foundation Europe GM, said in his keynote, "Europe has clearly heard the message on digital sovereignty."In an interview onstage at the summit, Nithya Ruff, chair of the LF board, added that it's not just Europe: "Digital sovereignty is a need that the entire world feels, whether it's Sierra Leone or the US or China." It's not just the Dutch tax collectors, though. >The Netherlands is also exploring total switching from Windows and proprietary software to Linux and open-source programs across the board. The Tax and Customs Administration isn't replacing all of Microsoft Office with a single open-source suite immediately. Instead, the government will keep the existing Microsoft software for now. But they will use alternatives where-ever possible.Looking ahead, State Secretary for Finance Eelco Profitmaker set out the replacement timetable in a letter to Parliament: "In 2027, the provision for mail and calendar will be realized on-premises. Later in 2027 and 2028, European open-source solutions for personal storage and collaboration will follow. This allows us to work toward a sustainable and more autonomous solution for these functionalities."
>>544324328based finland news poster
>>544324328LibreOffice is better
>>544324328Open Office is just as good and it's free
>>544324833That's what I said you dumb monkey
>>544324784Apparently some guy just recently reverse engineered a bunch of adobe and microshit software by vibecoding it with ai anyway. Subscription models btfohttps://petapixel.com/2026/10/12/there-are-free-open-source-versions-of-microsoft-office-apps-thanks-to-ai/
>>544324962Still sticking with LibreOffice and not use some useless tech bro zoomer AI slop trash
>>544324328Pretty fucking obvious They know they can't pull off a cyber polygon circle jerk after the data came in from COVID-19 The dutch are incredibly gullible buuuut incredibly smart too (ASML) etc... so like they realized how bad they were duped by COVID and it won't go well for them in another Jew freemason operation like COVID or cyber polygon... The other point is a place like Netherlands has highest population density on earth of the it infrastructure goes down it would absolutely unironically be 100x worse than silly COVID lockdowns. I'm fact dutch systems made COVID feel like a breeze...locked down in a perfectly run society is not exactly difficult. Buuuut crash those systems and delete everones bank account and oh fuck that would probably be the FASTEST route to total anarchy.Also bill gates HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH COVID-19 CMON WE ALL KNOW HE DID!you think he's not going to break a few windows before shuffling off the planet
>>544325050I agree, I’m just sayin’
It's already well within Europe's ability to spin up exact replicas of Facebook, Instagram, etc. in a week as replacements for banned American originals. European consoomers would grumble for a week or two while they re-built their contact lists, but the US stock market would lose 30% of its value overnight.
True Aryans only need Notepad
>normgroids wake up to issues that have existed for 40 years>mocked everyone who ever brought it up and called them conspiracy theoristsWhat else is new. Same shit, different day
>>544325341So the only difference between LibreOffice or GIMP/Krita and this AI generated version is that it's... AI generated? Why couldn't the zoomer faggot make a pull request implementing what he wanted in an existing FOSS office software and have to make his own gay version instead? Narcissism and egotism?
>>544325597I’ve only looked into it superficially and I don’t know how to code but it seems like he asked Claude to watch what the apps do and reproduce it. It doesn’t even use the original source code so legally it’s fine. Maybe
digital sovereignty but also censorship, internet IDs and complete chat control
>>544325741I was right. This arrogant tech bro faggot is 1. a shitskin mongrel2. calls himself an engineer yet doesn't actually do any engineering3. has a GitHub pro account (kike)4. Artcraft project has a whopping 26 commits5. self confessed ex tech bro at bullshit startups6. Jeet level amount of commits and followers
>>544324328saddest thing is they will be back in couple of years and the moving to opensource and then back will cost way too much money redoing everything
>>544324328The gulping is like the dudes moaning in porn.
>>544326876I don’t get hung up on shit like that. To me he just handed a big fat fuck you to a couple of megaJewish megacorpos and that’s good enough for me
>>544327769I'll let you in an open secret: No one pays for subscription software. Most people just pirate whatever program they need because you have to pay for the entire suit of apps when you just need one, which is incredible predatory. This kike didn't change anything, he didn't stick it to the jooz. He just wanted attention because jews cannot live without being the center attention.
>>544327979Other corpos pay or risk getting sued. Point is, at least to my way of thinking, is that if some rando like this guy can do imagine what someone truly competent could do. No need for piracy if everything is open source. No need for giant software companies and their monopolies either. If you can’t comprehend the amount of kvetch this will cause amongst the shekelgrubers I don’t know what to tell you
>>544328134>open source means trustworthyThat used to mean something, but I'm not going to download a week old app with a hundred thousand lines of code to check whether there's a secret keylogger or cryptominer process hidden in there that executed without me knowing. This is almost always the case with AI projects. They go massively viral thanks to their indian bot farms but this is only to distract you from analyzing the contents before downloading.I don't trust big software corpos, but I also don't trust this tech bro nigger, that is all.
>>544328371I don’t trust this guy either and I won’t be using his apps, but if you like libreoffice just imagine that with everything. If it’s all legal it means that most of these major software companies are fucked
