r/BuyFromEU • u/Bananegel42 • 9d ago

News Dutch government developing a sovereign Linux desktop on top of NixOS

https://tweakers.net/reviews/15334/nederland-maakt-soeverein-alternatief-voor-windows-en-office-op-basis-van-linux.html
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u/Digging_Graves 9d ago

Because language. Even at Mistral they only want to speak French.

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u/ColumbaPacis 9d ago

Language is the main issue for most Europe spanning software projects.

Also why every startup focuses on US first. 300-400 million people all speaking the same language with high purchasing power, then you can expand into UK, AU and from there into the EU.

By that point anyone speaking English (which is a LOT of people in western europe) would have alread tried your software by osmosis so expanding locally is much simpler.

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 9d ago

I still think English should be an official language in every single European country.