Hopefully more follow! Supporting European mobile OS would be huge step next
Good. As an American, fuck Microsoft. And fuck Trump.
Wait until Le Pen or Bardella comes into power and remake the deal with American tech oligarchs, undoing Macron’s push for strategic autonomy. As long as the right in France isn’t killed, any attempt of decoupling will only be coupled back to US, because fascists have internationalise their ideas and coordination.
would be great if they did phones next.
Jolla is the only real option software wise
Just ordered a Sony Xperia with SailfishOS! I hope you’re right! 🤞
(FYI just in case: SailfishOS is NOT an Android fork! I didn’t realize this until recently.)
They could throw support behind GrapheneOS, it’s great and it’s Canadian eh
Graphene is good, though it’s still pretty reliant upon Google not making life even harder for them, which it has been doing consistently.
A safer long-term option that is detached from Google’s whims entirely is PostmarketOS, which isn’t based on Android at all, but is instead a project based on Linux directly.
For sure GOS is great, but it is still only android fork. Not real independent alternative for duopoly
And it also only works on Google hardware 🤮
(And maybe one future Sony phone maybe?)
It’s confirmed coming to Motorola hardware next year. With more funding and institutional support I’m sure they could assemble a larger pool of devices that meet their requirements
France is not going to support GOS, 🤣🤣
Other options exist, but not so polished. It’s a tough project that apparently needs more support than small FOSS projects can provide, I’ve seen a lot of promising alternatives come and go.
Hardware/firmware wise, would really like to see open standards like we have for PC bootloaders. EU requiring nonproprietary bootloaders on phones would be a real step forward.
It’s finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
But hey,… progess! The more penguins, the better.
Also, Proton
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
You’re off by about thirty years.
all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Absolutely wild brand activation tactics from the Linux marketing team.
I fucking hate that so many of them are going to Ubuntu berceuse of course they are
Well they want “official” tech support from a company which they can hold accountable for any problems.
Well, yes.
Apocalypse?
Covid. I’m being slightly hyperbolic.
There are 7 million people who would agree with you, if they could.
Ah
Linux’s message to the world: “The I-Told-You-So’s Shall Continue Until Installation Rates Improve.”
we brought this upon ourselves by failing to listen to the FOSS gods.
A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.
I had DOS 6.2 which blatantly stole stuff from Stacker, and Windows 3 which explicitly had code to make it seem like competitor DR DOS was unstable.
It’s funny. As much as I detest DJT and all the terrible things he’s brought to the world order/markets/general stability, I do have to be thankful that he’s helped spur on digital sovereignty and sparked a revival in independence rather than US hegemony. It’s also a shame, but the US has proved itself too volatile and an unstable partner.
People always find it strange when I say the biggest reason for womens liberation happening is because of hitler, but it’s true.
Prior to America entering WWII, men went to work, women stayed home and did the dishes. That’s just how life was.
Then all the men needed to go overseas. But that left huge holes in the domestic workforce. Life simply couldn’t move forward without someone to stock the shelves of a grocery store, or fix cars, or drive the city bus. Work that up until then was historically men only. But…there were not enough men between 1941-1945 to fill the roles across all forms of work, but work needed to get done.
So women were brought into temporarily fill the roles until the men got back.
Then the war ends, the men come back, and suddenly the women don’t want to go back home and do dishes. So now you’ve got women back home, who want to be back at work, and men at work seeing more and more women not leaving.
And over the next decade or so, more and more women either never left the workplace, or came back to work. And then you had the homes where the men wouldn’t let their wives work. Which caused fights. And even though they were individual fights, these same fights were happening all over the country. As more women realized they aren’t alone, it became less of a fight with your husband, and more of a fight against traditional gender norms. And thus the womens liberation movement really gained traction.
And it all goes back to hitler creating the environment that allowed the whole butterfly effect to start.
And thats what you’re seeing with trump and linux.
Hitler didn’t give a damn about womens rights. But butterfly effect, he’s the biggest reason it happened.
Trump doesn’t give a damn about Linux, but here we go again.
Absolutely bizarre thing to say. The first liberation of women in the US was 1837 when women were allowed to control their own property. The second big liberation was securing the right to vote in 1920.
The issue with what you say is how women were treated after the “boys” came home. As other responses pointed out Women have always worked. The change was the type of work.
They were forced out of their new roles. This was not liberating at all. In fact, it was quite the opposite know your place kind of adjustment.
I suppose you could make an argument that this created an eventual backlash where the first women won the right to equal pay in 1961-2.
You have a point about more women working after this time, but it was not equal as they were forced into “pink” color jobs. I would argue the war really lead to more exploitation of women.
Hitler’s murder crusade inadvertently lead to women being exploited even more than they were before by US capitalism. I suppose it did prove that women could do the job of men, even if their society didn’t respect them.
To be clear, women’s work before World War II was more than just the dishes. If you look at the guidebooks published for housewives back then, you’ll see that they were expected to have quite a few skills that most households now generally outsourc to external businesses:
- Feeding the family. This was more than just cooking. They were expected to process foods from a much less processed state (much more butchery of meats and cleaning and processing of vegetable products, dairy products, baked goods), and then preserve foods for out-of-season consumption (pickling, preserving in jams/jellies, home canning, drying, and in some cultures smoking). Much of this work is now done by the industrial food processing industry so that we can buy cans or jars or boxes of the stuff that’s already processed or partially processed. Even our fresh foods have been cleaned and sorted and trimmed to mainly just the edible parts.
- Making and maintaining textiles. We see bits of this surviving into knitting and crocheting as hobbies, but back before the rise of cheap apparel it was important to be able to clean and repair clothes that we’d now just take to our local dry cleaner.
- Maintaining the house itself. Home improvement is masculine coded today, but a lot of the stuff that qualifies as home maintenance was traditionally the work of a homemaker. Plus things like heating the house required active involvement of keeping fires burning and fuel on hand.
- Making household consumables. Homemakers were making their own soap, their own candles, and all sorts of little tools.
The economic shifts that come from women leaving the home for the paid workforce are all over, and some of them are pretty pronounced. But it’s important to remember that women worked hard before they ever got paid for it. Life was toil.
poison is generally bad but if it kills the cancer they call it chemotherapy i guess! ha.
The French are doing the right thing. Getting independent from the US software dominance takes time and the US regime could decide any day to use it stupidly and brutally. I just wish my government had as much foresight.
This is why, as an Aussie, I’m very disappointed in our subservience to the US all the time. It’s honestly pathetic. We abandoned our initial plan for, admittedly not cutting edge tech, french-built submarines to go with far better-specced US-built subs but who knows if we’ll ever actually get any of them.
Honestly, I don’t trust the sepos not to hamstring them somehow.
My take on it: most people do have foresight or at least understand the issue, but they still don’t act on it or ignore it as long as the status quo is still convenient enough. So it’s purely a matter of pain and inconvenience. Once enough pain and inconvenience has accumulated, they’re much more ready to make an actual switch. Thankfully, with Microsoft’s services also becoming increasingly enshittified (forced AI chatbot integrations everywhere, even more cloud dependencies, ever more expensive subscriptions, …) there’s also Microsoft shooting itself in the foot a bit in order to accelerate this process. Vile actions from the current US regime are also accelerating the process of course.
I have read items like this for years about some jurisdiction in Europe switching to FOSS. These things take a long time to implement, lot of retraining of people that have used MS for decades. The cost is significant since you still need to pay the license fees and have support during the transition.
In this case it’s the entire government top-down. It’s not just a jurisdiction. They have probably weighed the cost benefits of transitioning vs throwing money at Microsoft forever
The French Revolution 2.0 where is the Person who says: if they dislike Microsoft why dont they use mac?
Nothing against Macs intended here, but why would anyone say that in this case?
It’d be like an anti-fast food movement where someone suggests Burger King as an alternative to McDonald’s. It wouldn’t make any sense for the goal.
I tried the Marie Antoinette quote, in a different manner. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Oh I get it now
Aren’t they on like French Revolution 4.0 or 5.0 already?
probably getting shouted down by the french policymakers who made this decision along the lines of “Apple is an American company too and we’re SICK OF AMERICA’S SHIT”
I mean that’s literally the goal so why wouldn’t they
Lmao, you beat me to it!
Sorry, sorry. I overslept.
Let them use Mac!
Hmm, it would be interesting if all these governments switching to Linux would make their own distros.
Interesting idea. Cops already have their own Matrix fork (https://element.io/en/case-studies/tchap) and Android fork for secure messaging and secure phones. I haven’t played with the secured phone, but it should be a custom locked-down Android ROM.
Creating distros is easy, funding for the volunteers upstream is what’s lacking.
I hope the move also prompts them to start supporting upstream with funds, code, infrastructure, engineers, benefits and so on.
I would think they’d want or even require a lot of customization for government work
What does he play?
Seems to be a weather map or somesuch. Ironically it’s also a Macbook, not a Windows machine.
