Easier said than done for a country that size, but I always think it would be amazing if Finland could band together with a couple dozen or so other European countries to form some kind of cooperative Union that would allow the creation of this kind of project. I also imagine that if such a thing did exist and you were a part of it you'd have to be a complete fucking dickbasket to leave it but that's neither here nor there.

Hosting with close allies shouldn't be a problem.

Within the EU, I still don't care in which country the data is hosted

In order to halt they have to consider it first. There is some process required.

That was my first reaction, but anyone who's been anywhere near the civil service knows it will take 16 meetings just to decide to have a meeting about it. The fact they've started considering it within a year means this must be high priority.

We've formed a committee to look into it

Oh no, no... Trust in America is gone forever, no matter who wins. Because American people have demonstrated (twice) that they can choose someone like Trump as a president. The world won't be waiting anxiously for the next Trump. We'll move on.

I’m sure the Democrats will select a top-tier candidate for us like Gavin Newsom in 2028. One of the most pressing issues in this country right now is there is a lot of hate against minority groups like billionaires and zionists, and a candidate like Newsom would work tirelessly to make sure these groups don’t have to live in fear.

The oligarchs are all fascist Zionists with or without Trump. American tech can’t be trusted and the only real solution is public tech alternatives.

All your data are belong to us.

American oligarchs will bribe the government to continue doing their bidding, even against nations that were once our allies.

It's a government thing. I'm not sure when they've started to consider alternatives, but that renewal process (as old systems are on EOL) has most likely been on the table for years.

That's not an alternative. In fact almost everything cloud already is Linux.

It's almost like you don't actually understand exactly what options they're looking at. And you just feel like throwing Linux out for everything. Considering that a lot of AWS does actually run on Linux.

We only struggle with what we produce not being bought up by American giants.

Writing the software isn't a problem. Having the company survive is.

Ericsson was doing great until it got swallowed up by globalization.

The one-two punch of the US and China shuttered a lot of viable global infotech companies.