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Breaking News: Microsoft moves European Headquarters to Copenhagen, and the Danish ones to Aarhus. On a unrelated note, the migration project was unfortunately a disaster.
What's this supposed to mean? Denmark is not a corpostate like the US
That's what happened when Munich tried to switch away from Microsoft. A little chat with the mayor, they've switched their headquarters to Munich and thus payed taxes there, and suddenly LiMux was a failure...
Oh, TIL.
That's true however Denmark is the least corrupt country in the world and their democracy is stronger.
Unfortunately among the least corrupt doesn't mean there isn't corruption.
How else do the Danish parliamentarians have a pension age 10 years below the rest of the population? (60 instead of 70)
That's pretty blatant and obvious corruption.
Letting parliamentarians retire early is not just good for them (it's a cushy job anyway, don't they want to keep their perks?), it is better for the country to let younger people take their place. As an example of corruption, this is the worst I've heard.
You can have term limits without allowing them to retire a decade ahead of the rest of the country. They would in that case just not be eligible to continue work in the parliament.
Yes because giving yourself benefits over the rest of the population is not corruption. ๐คก
Also it doesn't prevent them from staying longer, maybe they get both pension and wage and benefits. IDK.
There are so many examples of petty, corporate corruption out there, this is not one, maybe if you stretch the definition to include people making decisions that also benefit them...they also set their own salaries, for example, I guess that is corruption too...so now you need a new word to call out actual petty and corporate corruption.
Soon Microsoft will need to have dozens of European Headquarters.
This is huge, because in Denmark public services have been totally dominated by Microsoft (even more than most places), and even trying to question it, used to be nearly unheard of, and an obvious waste of time. No argument could penetrate the massive Microsoft propaganda.
For now this is only cloud services, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the start of a chain reaction.
Also the Danish government recently decided on a plan to to create guidelines for both public and private organisations to ~~switch away from~~ "curb dependency" on American services and software.
It's possible this could be the first result of that.
Interestingly one of the very few places I've encountered Linux in the wild was at the (also very cool otherwise) library in Ebeltoft (a village near Aarhus).
If you ever visit Bologna (Italy) the main library in the city center not only uses Linux, but it's on Raspberry Pis :)
Can't read the article because of paywall but I'd say any level of government moving away from big tech is good experience and an example for top level government to follow later. All I could find is that they moved to a German provider.
A German provider that offered to deliver the service at a fourth the cost of what Microsoft was charging. ๐คฃ
And the Government recently decided to make guidelines to help organizations both private and public to smoothly move from American services and software solutions to European equivalents. This could be part of that effort.
I'll wait for the news about how it's moving to Malus instead. (Hopefully not)
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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