Digital Sovereignty Notes

Notes on digital sovereignty.

Sovereignty Stories

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools, Simon Sharwood, June 2025
Lyon: au revoir Microsoft.
Danish Precedent Fuels German State’s Open‑Source Shift, ArabianPost, 2025
Schleswig‑Holstein: auf weidersehen Microsoft
Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, ZD Net, June 2025
Denmark: farvel Microsoft?
We have left the cloud, David Heinemeier Hansson, June 2025
HEY and Bootcamp moving to own hardware.

Horror Stories

Microsoft abruptly cuts services to Chinese university, genomics firm, Wency Chen, April 2025
Microsoft cutting service in China.
Criminal Court: Microsoft's email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty, Stefan Krempl, heise online, May 2025

Misc

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech, bert hubert, May 2025
Open source world is missing a lot of business things.
Sovereignty-washing, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, June 2025
Big tech pretending to deliver sovereignty, where there is none.