cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38271574
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.
For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
I look forward to a Europe fully on its own cloud and software stacks or at least FOSS options.
Why stop there? Let’s get our own internet too. Euronet or something.
Sorta defeats the purpose of the Internet doesn’t it?
How about own cloud stack on nextcloud?
I haven’t tried NextCloud but it looks more like a hosted application stack like M365 rather than a general purpose cloud like AWS/Azure/gcloud. What would be really cool is a homegrown cloud that emulated AWS/Azure/gcloud API’s so that you could easily port existing applications over.
A proper foss cloud stack is openstack