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The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC (itsfoss.com)
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When the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in early 2025, the consequences were far-reaching yet quickly enforced.

The restrictions cut off the ICC chief prosecutor's access to Microsoft services, including email, followed by a freezing of his personal and institutional bank accounts in affected jurisdictions.

While this was happening, the Dutch government was watching, coming to the bitter realization that access to essential services depended on decisions made in the U.S.

Hence, their response to this is DAWO, short for Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid, or Digital Autonomous Work Environment for Government in English.

It is a framework that looks to tackle the government's digital stack, covering the OS, an office suite, collaboration apps, cloud services, IT management tools, and AI, with all of it being built around a NixOS foundation.

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[โ€“] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As one of those people that live in the US, I think our superpower status has really enabled our harm, I dont really want us to keep it...

Sometimes people get really carried away with hating the US and it spills over into hating everyone here and wanting us to suffer, but I kinda DO hope the damage is irrepairable.

I don't think its good for a country to have as much power as the US has had. And we have weilded that power to harm basically everyone else for our own gain. I'd really like that to never happen again, frankly, and for so long as we can, I expect we will

Power corrupts, and we have spent too long holding WAY too much of it. (Plus foundational issues with the US, those do exist too, they just aren't what I'm talking about now)

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