• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    They try this every 5 years or so. Microsoft gives them some short term discounts and they come running back back.

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      It’s different this time around.

      The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,

      This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.

      I reckon it’s serious this time.

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        2 months ago

        Other countries like that and Europe deals with are: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia and of course, China.

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          The digital dependence on the US is much like the energy dependence on Russia.

          Europe is ditching Russian energy. They may ditch US tech.

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            2 months ago

            I don’t know about the whole Europe but Spain is buying more energy from Russia than before the war and sanctions.

            Don’t get me wrong, I hope that would be the case but Europe is also Corporativist.

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                The European Union regulates the market so much it’s hard to call it capitalism, the biggest european companies are basically EU projects like Airbus (every government funds it) or too big too fail like Siemens and/or they would use: “strategic industry” and be done with it.

                Edit oh and I almost forgot it, or they are like Inditex, basically not European it’s just an European getting rich while exploiting poor people all around the world, but I think this is actually capitalism and that guy isn’t exactly appreciated by ruling dictator, I mean party, in Spain.