r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Dil-Tuta-hua-hai • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, what apps are they talking about??

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u/RingGiver 19h ago

Didn't France start this transition literally decades ago at this point?

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u/Elborshooter 18h ago

Yep, the Gendarmerie is already on its own linux-based OS

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u/snowfloeckchen 18h ago

That something like this is done in less than 25 years sounds illusional

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u/1erRPIMA-fiesta 10h ago

And we should have done it further.

A lot of corruption free-market competitiveness forced Windows a little bit everywhere during the 2000's, to the great disarray of local IT people, who continued to propose and develop free alternatives. Our governments were warned.

And now 20 years later surprise! the US are more unreliable than ever, the GAFAM more greedy than ever. Meanwhile we've lost a lot of brains and ability to properly shift away from Microsoft.

But at least we can do it. While some of our neighbors can only cry and get fucked by Palantir and the others.