[tomjen3]

Anyone on HN can write a Swift alternative protocol in a few days. XML documents signed with public keys is a good start. The trick is to get the banks to use them and to integrate them in their systems, but the EU is capable of writing banking regulations.

Operating systems are even easier - pick your flavour of Linux - devices are all made in China anyway.

Its the cloud and software part that sucks. VPSes aside, almost any managed service is US based.

AI has made this even worse.

[baq]

Expect mistral to keep getting large cash infusions until they get competitive.

Managed services weren’t needed because big tech was bending to EU regulations and buying out alternatives. The services aren’t rocket science; plenty of euro devs participated and still participate in building them, they’re just on US big tech payrolls. Expertise is there, money isn’t, yet.

[cpursley]

Good point. The data center hardware is there and there's plenty of open source for things like PaaS and AWS compatible systems. Bewildering that this does not exist and everyone just used AWS.