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[–] [email protected] 34 points 18 hours ago

It's crazy if you're thinking about it: If Harris was elected, everything would go on their usual ways.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Soooo, they're ditching Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

I wouldn’t say so at the moment. Looking it up a bit, this seems to have been a motion essentially requesting the government to look into alternatives. But this is also what the expert said in the article:

Bert Hubert, a Dutch technology expert who has advocated for reducing dependency on the U.S., said: "This is only the first step in potentially doing something."

Honestly, our current cabinet is in such a bad state (not that it’s been in a good state at any point of its existence), I don’t expect them go get anything done.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf everyone should ditch Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

True.

It would be great irony if Mr Trump accidentally frees us from Microsoft and azure through all his bumbling.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Awesome! What about the Dutch government, though? I'd be surprised if a far-righter like Gert Wilders agrees with this ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's not like he alone gets to make the decision

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

He should be able to block quite a few things, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Bert Hubert covers this quite well

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I have yet to see the government actually do something about this (because it's costly), but I don't see why Wilders in particular would be against this? This seems totally unrelated to his key issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

After the switch, the cost of using FOSS is zero, while m$ windows isn't... So I guess it'll pay itself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well a pro-trump anti-eu politician probably sees little reason to change to european/foss

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

He’s not very vocally pro-Trump at the moment. To be honest, the whole Trump-situation is his worst nightmare as, firstly, Trump’s idiocy has changed the political debate in the Netherlands from revolving around Wilders’ favourite topic (immigration) to national defence, and secondly, in this new debate he’s at a disadvantage as he’s been openly pro-Trump, and also openly pro-Putin.

But Vincent is correct that Wilders is a one-issue party. On other issues than migration, the PVV pretty much just goes along with the right-wing liberal VVD.