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Europe had a plan after they learned Merkel’s blackberry contents were going to Fort Meade, but they never enacted it. They planned their own MS Office (and ema
by nickdothutton 1y ago
Europe had a plan after they learned Merkel’s blackberry contents were going to Fort Meade, but they never enacted it. They planned their own MS Office (and email) replacement. Even got as far as scouting data centre sites and identifying first 40M accounts.
- snickerbockers 1y agoThe EU seems to have a problem with the whole "talk is cheap" thing. They're always making grand announcements of new initiatives like this but they hardly ever materialize.
- nickdothutton 1y agoThe EU is not a delivery organisation. They are not “do-ers”. In fact there are almost zero “do-ers” in the organisation. It’s all “talkers”.
- triknomeister 1y agoBecause they plan before implementation. They don't trust grassroot efforts in most work. While this works well for them in classically established fields, it makes them fall flat on their faces in anything that requires experimentation with scaling. Europe only has two modes: 1. Time-limited research funding (which funds basic sciences) 2. Classical "planned" funding (which funds classical industries) Both are symptoms of low-risk taking ability, the first one is bound on risk by time, the second one by planning. It doesn't have any institution that it can trust that can hand out funding which creates a bridge between the two. The real reason is that there's no EU-wide institution that has the trust and power of the EU-wide population for that purpose. And the fractured democracy is part of the reason for that.
- 6c696e7578 1y agoWhich part of Europe? There's plenty of alternatives for off the shelf, or self hosted mail. An oldie, but still good is gmx for mail.
- nickdothutton 1y agoThe EU planned an alternative to GSuite, including mail. The full office portfolio, after the Merkel thing.