A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.
I mean, I’ve seen a lot of noise by Canada and Europe about how they need to distance themselves from the United States, meanwhile if you look at the world’s top visited websites, more than half of them are US based, from major search engines like Google to AI stuff like Gemini and ChatGPT to marketplaces like Amazon and eBay to social media like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to video media hosting like Netflix, Youtube and Twitch. Canada has one entry: Pornhub. EU countries have two: XVideos in France and XHamster in Cypress.
“Switching to our own operating system” means switching from an American corporation, to some American non-profit foundations. Trading Microsoft for GNU/Linux. Still running on Intel x86 architecture machines. Don’t get me wrong, the attempt is adorable, but you’re four decades behind in a four decade old discipline.
I mean, I’ve seen a lot of noise by Canada and Europe about how they need to distance themselves from the United States, meanwhile if you look at the world’s top visited websites, more than half of them are US based, from major search engines like Google to AI stuff like Gemini and ChatGPT to marketplaces like Amazon and eBay to social media like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to video media hosting like Netflix, Youtube and Twitch. Canada has one entry: Pornhub. EU countries have two: XVideos in France and XHamster in Cypress.
“Switching to our own operating system” means switching from an American corporation, to some American non-profit foundations. Trading Microsoft for GNU/Linux. Still running on Intel x86 architecture machines. Don’t get me wrong, the attempt is adorable, but you’re four decades behind in a four decade old discipline.