European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

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Eu is going for "technological sovereignty" by asking people how to install linux (you know, that USA based linux who banned Russian contributors for being Russian but suuurely wouldn't ban other europeans). And if they manage somehow to get Ubuntu going, they'll call themselves 'independent and cyber-secure' because I doubt anybody could be so cruel as to mention to them the hardware problem and the 0 number of fabs they have ;)

I know you're being facetious, but perhaps you forgot, or are not aware, that Intel buys their photolithography machinery from ASML [1], a Dutch company. I'm unsure about AMD and nVidia at the moment, I'd need to have a look.

As for the lack of fabs based in Europe, you're not completely off. Fortunately, there are ongoing plans to build several across France, Germany, and Italy [2].

Push come to shove, we'll be happy to switch to using GNU/Linux on ARM ;)

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-keeping-wonderful-secr....

[2] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/milestone-stre...

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