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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Time + motivation + money can overcome a lot of obstacles. It also helps that template of what is needed already exists in Active Directory. This changes the project from "innovating something new" to "a slightly better copy" and is usually a lot faster and easier.
All copyright/patents are also void because of the sanctions at least in practice.