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What do American colleagues think when they read about this trend among Europeans to abandon their platforms?
by fofoz 7mo ago
What do American colleagues think when they read about this trend among Europeans to abandon their platforms?
- andsoitis 7mo agoCompetition is great.
- fofoz 7mo agoI wouldn't call it competition, given that here we are fleeing towards less advanced services for purely geopolitical reasons.
- RupertSalt 7mo agoAh, now you’ve captured the F/OSS zeitgeist!
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- hansvm 7mo agoIt seems smart to me. Our leaders are intent on burning it all down, and I don't think anyone should be shocked as the smoke starts to billow.
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- flomo 7mo agoA lot of this discussion actually more about "use baremetal" or "put servers in your closet". HN tells Americans to do the same thing (and hire them to do it).
- ectospheno 7mo agoI go out of my way to use American services. It would be hypocritical of me to deny others the right to use their country’s services. Plus competition is always better for consumers so have at it.
- auslegung 7mo agoI am deeply troubled by what the Trump regime is doing but I think this trend for European countries to use European tech is actually quite good. Competition is better, plus your privacy laws are much better. I host some of my own data in Europe for this reason.
- plagiarist 7mo ago"Fucking great, Amazon and Google need competition." I just hope this is economically damaging enough that they will quit doing campaign finance for a party consisting entirely of despotic grifters.