Yes I thought the article was a little bit ranty and missed the point. It's fundamentally about Germany trying to move off of MS software, well the reason they

Yes I thought the article was a little bit ranty and missed the point. It's fundamentally about Germany trying to move off of MS software, well the reason they want to do that is because they don't want to depend on software that can be backdoored trivially by a foreign government. The US can compel Microsoft to insert a backdoor in any of its products at any time and it will happen (probably has already). Open source has this inherent advantage, at least backdoors have to be snuck by the eyes of the maintainers (though it can and does happen as we have seen). So I think the writing is on the wall, this will increasingly be a competitive disadvantage for American solutions in Europe as time goes on.