Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc
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Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc
It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.
Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.
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Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc
It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.
Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.
to piggy back off this over the past year I've done just that. I've switched to all European and Canadian companies or just straight up FOSS stuff for my services.
OS: Linux
Email: Malio, Tuta
Search: SearX
Cloud Storage: Filen
PW Management: Bitwarden
Browser: QuteBrowser
Video: Invidious, Peertube, Freetube, Private JellyFin server
Online Purchasing: easy, buy directly from the source and/or locally. Amazon was actually probably the easiest to switch.
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Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc
It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.
Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.
Canada / Europe should be FUNDING open source projects and moving away from the US giants.
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to piggy back off this over the past year I've done just that. I've switched to all European and Canadian companies or just straight up FOSS stuff for my services.
OS: Linux
Email: Malio, Tuta
Search: SearX
Cloud Storage: Filen
PW Management: Bitwarden
Browser: QuteBrowser
Video: Invidious, Peertube, Freetube, Private JellyFin server
Online Purchasing: easy, buy directly from the source and/or locally. Amazon was actually probably the easiest to switch.
The consumer can only really be expected to do so much. Fail of governments / regulators can't really be fixed by consumer action. Realistically, you can't get many to understand and care. We need to pressure governments to do their job. Now the problem isn't academic. It's national security and the tax money and control lost to American big tech is now a political problem. Be a lot easier if they hadn't been a sleep on the job and ignoring digital rights and competition experts, but we are where we are.
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Canada / Europe should be FUNDING open source projects and moving away from the US giants.
Right? This is a no-brainer. Builds a technical workforce, creates Canadian businesses that pays taxes to Canada (instead of giving money to American companies who pay taxes to the US), saves an incredible amount of money that is currently spent on bullshit licenses to Microsoft, Google, etc. Not to mention the security implications of using American software in the Canadian government.
