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China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 3 hours ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 13 points 2 hours ago

Why not Windows 11? Because China, like many other non-US governments, no longer trusts American companies with their software and services. This approach is all about digital sovereignty.

I never understood why any country would allow their government computers to run proprietary software from a foreign (to them) company.

I'm sure that China had access to a lot of Windows source code as part of their previous agreement, but it's far too big a risk, really, for any country, even the United States, to run Windows.

As far as I'm concerned, China is decades late in making this decision, and it's still ahead of a lot of (most?) governments.