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Is there a trustworthy source for this claim¹ the post makes?

It does not conform to what I see today, nor the plans I see for the future when it comes to governments use of software.

¹ "" Thankfully the political systems of Europe have started to wise-up and stand-up to US BigTech hostility and have mandated that all software used for public services, government and state apparatus must be Libre open source code that is auditable, verifiable and under control of the people. ""

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I've been hearing this claim half my life. Slashdot used to have a daily story of how "Germany switches to Linux" and it always turned out to be that Linux got installed on one server in the bureau of steam-cleaning municipal dumpsters in a village nobody had heard of before.

When the German open source enthusiasts and penny pinchers legislate government employees using open source office software the employee's union fights back.

Could you cite your sources?

The only thing that I could find was that VerDi has a very good stance being PRO open-source software, and ANTI encryption and chat backdoors:

  ver.di setzt sich ein für die Nutzung und Förderung von Open-Source-Software durch
  den deutschen Staat, indem er in Verwaltung, Behörden und staatlichen Organisationen
  so weitgehend wie möglich Open-Source-Software nutzt. Zudem soll die Entwicklung von
  Open-Source-Software finanziell und institutionell langfristig gefördert werden. Dies
  gilt ebenso für die benötigte Hardware-Infrastruktur. Wenn der Staat Software
  programmiert oder in Auftrag gibt, muss diese Open Source sein. Dadurch macht der
  Staat sich unabhängig von einzelnen Anbietern und langfristig werden Kosten gespart,
  da weniger Gebühren für Lizenzen anfallen.

https://www.verdi.de/ueber-uns/bundeskongress-2023/berichte/...

It is not true, source: I work for an institution that would be impacted by such a ruling. There are requirements for sovereignty, but as usual people play fast and loose with the concept. Governments are not more competent than anyone else.

The statement is so vague it can't be true anyway. What's Europe? The continent, the EU or one of the organisations that EU membership often come with?

I actually know what I'm talking about. You're free to disagree and "just ask questions", but I don't want to engage with tedium.

I was agreeing with you. I found the statement that 'the political systems of Europe' so vague it couldn't be true. It's why I listed several different definitions of Europe.

I misunderstood, I apologise

Don't get me wrong this is some schizo shit, but I agree with the sentiment, and it in itself is a source for the claim. What would you expect a double blind trial measuring political bits in cybersecurity atoms?

>some schizo shit

Please don't smear those with mental illness like this.

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