United States to sanction the International Criminal Court: Netherland's answer? Building their own government Linux distribution, and it's not just symbolic. France doing the same. The government-built desktop OS based on NixOS and the full story:

[u/KILOCAL0RIE]

[u/thank_burdell]

Losing Microsoft access seems like a bonus.

[u/Random-num-451284813]

Here's to seeing Windows getting the IE experience

[u/Worried-Attention-43]

The right decision.

[u/ahrienby → u/Worried-Attention-43]

Missing is a unified EU-based competitor to credit and debit card payment duopoly.

[u/srak → u/ahrienby]

It’s in progress

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/european-payments-groups-join-forces-lessen-us-reliance-2026-09-30/

[u/zebadrabbit]

they lost Microsoft Access? theres better databases! /s

[u/ProjectPaatt]

Can someone ID those logos on the left please? I'm not familiar with all of them and am kinda unsure about others.

[u/Embarrassed-Noise269 → u/ProjectPaatt]

1) nixOS 2) Nextcloud (Self hosted cloud storage - lot of plugins, to also use mail, office etc) 3) I don't know  4) Matrix Chat (Element client) 5) I don't know  6) Libre Office (Office suite)

[u/_o0Zero0o_]

As someone who's so used to seeing countryballs and the countryball of the states having sunnies.. Seeing the Netherlands and France with sunnies and the states without them is unnerving

[u/johncate73]

Any sovereign nation with half an ounce of sense would leverage FOSS to create its own secure operating system for government operations. If it took Trump's douchebaggery for them to realize that, shame on them.

[u/Tactical-Donkey]

An here  in the UK we have government job opportunities to train people how to move to office 365. Just shows how little people in my government understand what they're doing. 

[u/Sbatushe]

i accidentally red "united states of sanction"

[u/Street_Doctor_8169 → u/Sbatushe]

Oh I didnt realize the color was red

[u/x_wbmr_x → u/Sbatushe]

Hopefully soon

[u/natheo972]

The sole that State were using US based solution was already a problem in itself. Good thing that they are waking up, it's however that it had to come to that for them to start doing it…

[u/Edubbs2008]

They should have choose FreeBSD, the Linux foundation is still headquartered in the U.S, you aren’t truly free from America, Russia couldn’t even continue their own distro because under Joe Biden, an executive order sanctioned them

[u/Aware-Nature-406 → u/Edubbs2008]

Wdym Russia couldn't continue their distro? There are a number of such and they are used at specific places.

[u/Edubbs2008 → u/Aware-Nature-406]

You mean with Outdated kernels? The Linux ecosystem still relies on the main source for security, that’s why you see major distros like Ubuntu update their kernel to reflect the main repository, Russia is prevented from accessing that, so they are out of luck

[u/AmarildoJr → u/Edubbs2008]

Isn't the FreeBSD Foundation based in USA too?

[u/Edubbs2008 → u/AmarildoJr]

There is no FreeBSD Foundation, it’s run by contributors, not a single foundation, while Linux is mainly run by the Linux Foundation, which is basically big tech companies in the disguise of a FOSS platform