Isn’t palantir making deals all over Europe?
Leaders: (to US) Were serious! Don’t make us cut this cord! We’ll do it… We will do it… Don’t try to stop us… Don’t try and talk a out of it…
European Citizens: (to their elected leaders) For goodness sake, cut it now, ASAP, and let us be free of those risks.
Anyone still relying on services or resources from the united States is seriously mentally ill or a saboteur.
Or y’know this stuff takes time.
It’s been a year and shit wasn’t great before that.
A year is nothing, I’ve seen changes to backend data sources, all internal, where the new data source is superior and everyone wants the change to happen take 12+ years (and counting). That’s nothing compared to the changes that would be required for the continued seamless operation of a country or even a large corp, much of the required software/documentation/processes won’t even exist yet.
Valid, but it wasn’t sane for the previous 8 years, and the threat is substantial.
Don’t get me wrong, I do think independence is a good thing and should happen faster, I’d go as far as to say almost every penny spent by governments across Europe (including UK/Norway/Switzerland) on proprietary software is shameful.
I’m fairly certain if European govts got together and spent one year’s MS Office budget funding an open source Office suite for instance - LibreOffice would be on another level.
In reality we’re probably at the feasibility study stage for most (if anything is being done at all).
I just don’t think we need to start bandying about terms like “seriously mentally ill” or the hyperbole of “saboteur”
Again, the problem is worsened under the current regime, but american tech has had a severe end enshittification/usability problem for a while now, and trump normalized some very shady crap in his first term, which started last decade.
The idea that a single piece of American commercial software will still be usable by 2031 is optimistic.
re:title: Who used my Santa wish list as a primary source again?!
The article goes on about "would be nice if"s. Call me back when the EU sets some meaningful financial/legal incentives to move away from US hyper-dependance by default.
Really hoping they do. The EU is a huge market, and it will have a downstream effect and potentially force positive change in the US if they consume less from us.
Better half a century late than never!
