Why is it that hard to break away from big tech? Start with Microsoft - their software gets worse every year… At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re just selling copilot slop
As a Dane, this has been frightening for years. I hope our government thinks of open source solutions, instead of just a european company over a US one.
instead of just a european company over a US one
even this is an improvement
As a unitedstatesian engineer, reading stories about escaping the infuriating (and now, very obviously caustic and manipulative) US monopoly on tech infrastructure companies makes me want to move to the EU and help break the monopoly on that shit. There are other things that make me want to move too, but the opportunity to build some real alternatives that diminish US hegemony over… well, everything, is frankly more than a bit enticing.
so… you’re the baddies?
I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.
it’s coming from a well known meme: “are we the baddies”.
You should look it up. It’s basically 2 Nazis wondering, and then realizing they are the baddies…
Mitchell and Webb.
“Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?”
I don’t really get why and how lobbies are even allowed.
I always thought the correct word to describe it was “corruption” and that it was illegal.
Corruption is when you get a million for something. Lobbying is when you do it for a promise to be on the board of directors in the future.
Welcome to capitalism, where stuff like this is only illegal in socialist countries.
Like… Denmark? Where it’s legal?
Of course, our socialist ruling party in Norway recently had several former ministers join various lobbies lately, so there’s that too. Not illegal, though.
6·24 hours agoDenmark is capitalist, so yeah of course I’d be legal.
The US is capitalistic. Most of Europe is some variation of social democratic, with us up in the Nordics more socialist than further down on the continent.
Yes, capitalistic values increasingly and intrusively are corroding functioning societies towards a more US style dysfunction, but we are still far from as lost a case, so there is still hope.
And lobbyism has been regularly discussed in the last decade and will hopefully at least get stronger regulation sooner rather than later for several of us, so there is hope for that part at least.
I see you subscribe to the “socialism is when the government does stuff” school of thought, I disagree with that and think Denmark is social democratic and therefore capitalist.
Social Democracy is a method of operating the government.
Capitalism is a way of operating the economy.
Much of Europe’s governments are classified as a Social Democracy and they also use the capitalist economic system.
Welcome to Lemmy, where ‘socialist countries’ means nations that follow Marxist-Leninism and not a form of modern utopian socialism better known as social democracy that took bits and pieces of Marxist-Leninism under a capitalist umbrella.
So not like Denmark, but like China or Vietnam.
It’s lobbying in the West and Euro subsidies embezzlement in the East.
I’d choose the second option tbh. I’d rather yoink some funds than take a bribe.
All I can say is Nothing new on the western front. Same shit all the time.
