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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2026
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Well of course. The whole point of US trade policy was to maintain global dominance. You don't think that politicians were sending money to other countries purely out of the goodness of their own heart, do you? ... Of course some of them have good intentions some of the time, but let's not pretend no other reasons came into consideration.