@Em0nM4stodon I read the question every days in France and I don't understand why it's not totally pointless as question.

GAFAM spend billions to be every where in our infrastructures. Moving out or cut it would be the stupidest move ever. It's a stupid question, it won't happen. It's like asking "imagine USA removed oil extractor from Irak, what would you do?" they won't that's why they came. That's how they hold the power in us. It makes no sense they would just give our freedom back for free

@Em0nM4stodon Hungary would descend into chaos within hours. Without US BigTech, we're fucked.

We're also jumping on the AI gigafactory trainwreck to make it worse, because why the hell not.

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At Work:
Os and Office world be needed to be switched.
Email and our main work program is hosted in a local Datacenter.

Emergency services world be f... ed

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That would be bad, but not quite as immediately catastrophic as if mainframes disappeared.

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Situation here (Germany / Schleswig Holstein) is mixed. The federal government would be crippled. The state government of Schleswig Holstein already migrated the backend stuff to FOSS (Linux + OpenXChange) and is in the middle of migrating all the desktops to FOSS.

Publicly operated hospitals still are dependent on MS stuff, but that's two fold: PACS and diagnostic devices. The PACS system backend is moving toward FOSS, desktops are Windows.

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Call me paranoid, but I live in the continental US, and still worry about those things. The Trump administration classifies plenty of US citizens and legal residents as enemies and terrorists (eg Antifa), and could shut off our access to big tech easily.
I use Linux and LibreOffice, and although I do use some cloud storage, all of my important data is on my own file server.
Of US big tech, losing Google would likely affect me most, but it wouldn't be that big a disaster for me.

@Em0nM4stodon A French newspaper has an interesting "what if" piece of fiction about this https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2026/04/LAMBERT/69457. Unfortunately it has a French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Arabic version, but not English.

@Em0nM4stodon Germany would simply continue conducting business via fax.

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Oh, we had this discussion at work last week when someone asked why I want to host a dadabase on premise and not in the MS Azure cloud. And I replied that the service gets disrupted if Microsoft cuts their service to us by requirement of the gouvernment (I might have used the term "Orange Shitshow" instead).

The reply was: "If Microsoft cuts its services to us, nothing will work anymore anyway."

And I followed up: "That's true for your services. Mine all run on linux and on prem for a reason."

@Em0nM4stodon If we do in Australia, it's not public, and I'd be pleasantly shocked if ASIO was even talking about it behind closed doors. There was a tiny little indication of awareness a couple of months ago:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-11/spacex-risk-elon-musk-starlink-satellite-regulation/106779898

@Em0nM4stodon i've had lots of eye rolling in response to my bringing it up at work, only kinda now am i being half taken seriously 🤨

@Em0nM4stodon no microsoft means no GitHub, no npm of course.

@Em0nM4stodon But they can't! All our Azure resources are in "North Europe". It will be fine.

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I think hospitals in my current country of residence would be mostly fine.
The rest, however...

If Microsoft/Azure, AWS, Google and (not to be forgotten!) Cloudflare went out overnight, it would be a major catastrophe.
There's lots of talk about so called "digital sovereignty", but it's mostly lip service.