> How is american governments access to other nations data fine but not the other way around? Nothing's stopping nation-states from forking Linux-based systems

> How is american governments access to other nations data fine but not the other way around? Nothing's stopping nation-states from forking Linux-based systems and open source tools to circumvent Microsoft, Apple, Netgear, etc. There isn't enough political buy-in to wean countries off of Windows, Mac, Android, Intel, AMD etc. German schools for a while used OpenOffice as Office 365 had too many privacy issues. But these are small-scale changes that are temporary, and don't go beyond the muncipality level [0]. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germany-threatens-to-break-up-with-microsoft-office-again/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/germa...