{"id":2389,"date":"2025-10-30T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infos-globales.fr\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:03:15","slug":"digital-sovereignty-myths-and-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infos-globales.fr\/index.php\/en\/2025\/10\/30\/digital-sovereignty-myths-and-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital sovereignty: myths and realities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Free and Open-Source Software and the Linux ecosystem hold real promise in terms of openness and innovation, but they also pose concrete challenges to digital sovereignty when they rely heavily on dependency chains and repositories maintained by third parties. These dependencies expose organizations to supply chain risks, loss of legal control, and obsolescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversely, proprietary on-premise solutions, particularly Microsoft Windows Server environments and Windows workstations, often offer more immediate operational, hardware, and legal control for businesses and individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategic innovation is not just about software and open source; the Windows gaming market has funded hardware breakthroughs \u2014 notably the rise of GPUs \u2014 which are now benefiting research, weather forecasting and AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pragmatic approach must distinguish between local (on-premise) and remote (cloud) solutions and assess effective governance, not just the \u00ab\u00a0open source\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0proprietary\u00a0\u00bb label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. The Dependency Hell in the FOSS ecosystem<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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