US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B

That sounds like a pretty good deal to me…

Still cheaper than relying on US technology. Furthermore, the tech giants sided with Krasnov and the EU is telling them to get fucked. Kudos to the EU.

Sounds like short term pain to ensure long term sovereignty

This seems to echo Trump’s hissy fit over NATO countries not paying their share of military expenses when what he really meant is that they aren’t funnelling more money to the US military complex and daring to spend within their own borders.

€115B for what ? Software to maintain cloud infrastructure is opensource, and lots of people who work on it are from Europe so if they can ditch US and join EU companies those fuckers will be in big trouble.

That’s what it’ll cost the tech giants.

In cases where I’ve worked on projects to transition to open source, they’ve all ended up saving money: capex goes close to zero, and opex starts out higher due to learning curve, but then drops below the old baseline in a few months.

And not ditching them would cost them €511B

Cost who?

Cool, an €115 billion injection into the European economy and jobs which we would have wasted offshore for no benefit, let’s do it!

Translation: US Tech giants discovered their hostile actions cost them their customers.

is all this deserves in response.

I thought America didn’t need anybody else? According to the clown in charge.

Linux is free bitch

And staying with the USA might cost 100 billion per year in overpriced fossil fuels contacts and cleaning up USA’s military adventures.

Totally worth it and we’ll recoup a large chunk since the money will be going to companies that pay their taxes. Not doing this isn’t even an option anymore.