US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem — trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027
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The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
  • ouch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 hours ago

    US has been building soft power like this for decades, and Trump is pissing it all away.

    If this process to get rid of dependency on US gets well underway, there’s no turning that ship. US won’t recover the position it had in fifty years or more.

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 hour ago

      Nope. The US isn’t teaching people to fish, its forcing them to learn How to to feed themselves. In the past they handed them the fish so they could control them. That power is lost now.