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The Helsinki Times reports that Finland's Minister of Finance suggested during a recent foreign policy speech that Finland and the EU could pursue self-sufficiency in computing, in particular to avoid over dependence on just a handful of companies. She pointed out that this overreliance on said companies has become so severe that company policy has already started to override existing relevant legislation. The topic had earlier been brought up by President Sauli Niinistö. So far, though, not even Russia has made progress in that direction despite over a decade passing since announcing plans.
"Cyber self-sufficiency, in practical terms, could mean having a European operating system and web browser. The EU could also function as a provider of certificates," she envisioned in a foreign and security policy speech in Helsinki on Wednesday, 26 February.
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(Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:52PM (2 children)
Good luck making a new browser from scratch.
What, you only need ~13 billion years, more or less...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday February 27 2020, @11:14PM
Are you kidding me? you also need the plus infinity years for the random quantum fluctuation that made the universe bang happen in a proper combination, and you also [ineffable] the ineffable that meta-encodes and meta-enforces the quantum behavior, because even if you formally proved that that behavior is the only conceivable one, you still have to disprove the inconceivable ones, as conceiving stems from being in the conceived universe, so it is tautological.
13 billion years is an estimate from when the bang happened, as proven by the calculations that trace back stuff assuming the bang happened and by interpreting the CMB as the echo.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @02:35PM
13 billion to develop a secure Javascript and animated autoplay spank the monkey, 2 minutes to disable it all back to the Stone Ages.