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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Make Microsoft pay by switching to European companies for contracts instead!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, in this case Microsoft is not to blame. They were forced by their government.

Which means we should switch to European companies not out of revenge at Microsoft, but out of the necessity to have digital sovereignty.

[โ€“] Typotyper 2 points 1 week ago

Punish the companies and they will stop donating to their election campaigns.