The French government has had enough of Windows on its computers and is switching over to Linux. This isn’t some airy, political statement about ‘one day’ doing so — this is a call to arms, a declaration of ‘digital sovereignty’, that’s happening now. As David Amiel, who is Minister of Public Action and Accounts, puts it (translated): "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control.
Some countries in Europe are already doing this.
The French government has had enough of Windows on its computers and is switching over to Linux. This isn’t some airy, political statement about ‘one day’ doing so — this is a call to arms, a declaration of ‘digital sovereignty’, that’s happening now. As David Amiel, who is Minister of Public Action and Accounts, puts it (translated): "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control.
Still most of European government internet services and websites are hosted on government cloud providers infra from those three companies.