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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) by canopic jug on Friday February 28 2020, @07:19PM
You think there was resistance in Linux? Try OpenBSD. SystemD's feet shall never feel the blessed lands that are BSD. Ever.
There are other BSDs than just OpenBSD. FreeBSD comes to mind and there several muppets, Benno Rice to name one, have been going praising systemd and scheming to get someting similar injected into FreeBSD. It could be Poe's Law in action, but they seem serious. I could see FreeBSD eventually succumb to the SJW politics that carried in systemd. However, for OpenBSD, I don't see it gaining a foothold there, ad least not as things stand for now, even if one does sometimes see some shaky stuff there now and again, unlike in the old days. So all that said, a collaborative fork of OpenBSD could be a great base for a national or regional operating system: the code is very cleanly written, well-documented, and actively culled to remove bloat.
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