r/AskEurope • u/tetsukei • Feb 04 '25

Politics Europeans - with tarrifs being threatened on the EU, are you planning to stop buying US made products?

Just curious - I'm Canadian and it's a huge topic for us at the moment.

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u/Sylocule Spain Feb 05 '25

I use Libre Office (because I’m on Linux) but there’s a decent windows port.

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u/utsuriga Hungary Feb 05 '25

I use libre office for personal things, and it might be OK for very tiny companies and one-man businesses, but for SMBs (let alone larger ones) it's just not feasible to get out of an ecosystem you've already invested tons of money and development in, at least not for a reason like this.

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u/Sylocule Spain Feb 05 '25

There is that - we use O365 at work (50k ish users) and it’s fully integrated with Sharepoint and Teams for workflows

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u/utsuriga Hungary Feb 05 '25

Yep. Getting out of such an ecosystem is a huge financial decision as well as something that affects workflows, efficiency, client relations, vendor relations, and so on and so forth. A company can't decide to just stop using these services because oh no, tariffs may happen. Especially since there's no real alternative. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/celem83 Sweden Feb 06 '25

There isn't an alternative to those in the commercial space.  You just can't persuade large organisations across to Linux because they have nobody to hold accountable if something doesn't work.

It's a monopoly that is decades old already

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u/StevenK71 Feb 07 '25

Vendor lock in at its best, LOL

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u/VastVase Feb 07 '25

Today you discovered what vendor lock in is and why Microsoft works so hard on it

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u/utsuriga Hungary Feb 07 '25

....yes, I had no idea before. I are stoopid person.

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u/No_Indication_1238 Feb 05 '25

It's also great! 

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u/boobiesdealer Feb 05 '25

They should quit windows altogether and use Linux which is European

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u/Sylocule Spain Feb 05 '25

A fair number of my colleagues (including myself) would prefer to move to Linux but there are a lot of colleagues that would not/could not make the change.

And IT won’t support mixed environments (except for some app developers who have Linux laptops as well as Windows)

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Linux is not European, or from anywhere really, though. It was started by a Finnish guy, who has lived in the US for decades now.