The problem now is that institutions are literally infected with strongly US leaning people. I don't even mean politicians but just people who tied their career

The problem now is that institutions are literally infected with strongly US leaning people. I don't even mean politicians but just people who tied their careers and lives to some US technology. Look at Microsoft - there is whole industry of IT admins who have lifetime of experience in that Microsoft stack. You will have many Microsoft former employees at top positions at universities teaching programming with Microsoft stack. Even in just economical sense it never really made sense when you have local companies like SUSE that could give you well functioning IT infrastructure. The money would at minimum stay in EU. It probably made sense for export of the talent (which countries don't make money on) but you just locks yourself to infinite Microsoft payments. There are many conservative european corporations (like postal services) that never were on Microsoft stack. It was always hailed as the "poor" economical but secure solution. They probably still reap benefits. But afaik it was always uphill battle with governments because of the strong lobby from US. Imagine if the europe started to switch to something like SUSE. It would make so many peoples skills immediately outdated. So many will fight this.