• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgOP
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    The report argues that restrictions favoring European cloud providers would leave governments and businesses facing hefty bills to migrate workloads and rewrite software. It puts direct public-sector costs at €33.3 billion, with a further €80 billion potentially falling on private companies in sectors including banking, healthcare, energy, and transport.

    So those €115B is the cost of decoupling from Trumpland. If governments go Linux and FOSS in their software, that will save so much money in the long run

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      Those hefty bills to migrate will be paid to European IT companies, which will handle the migration. I am assuming they do not have a big HQ in Ireland and pay their proper taxes.

      So no matter how we do it, it is always a win for us. Biggest challenge is convincing people using Linux and FOSS products.

      But it tells me the US Mag7 are worried, if they threaten us with such a hefty bill. 🤣