On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:43:08 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'ZDNet reports:
The original article is here <https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/>.
... It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denmark wants to claim "digital sovereignty." In the States, you probably haven't heard that phrase, but in the European Union, digital sovereignty is a big deal and getting bigger.
More details about this issue from the original article: For example, after the EU-based International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallan[t], for war crimes, President Donald Trump issued ICC sanctions. This order allegedly prompted Microsoft to lock the ICC's Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, out of his email accounts, according to reports. This came after Microsoft chairman and general counsel, Brad Smith, had promised that the company would stand behind its EU customers against political pressure. Recently, however, Smith stated that Microsoft had not been "in any way [involved in] the cessation of services to the ICC," according to Politico. When pressed, Microsoft failed to further explain how the email disconnection occurred. Can you trust a US-based company, that values the lucrative business from its own country’s Government, to defy the policies of that same Government? Of course not.