International Criminal Court to Switch From Microsoft Office to openDesk ⇥ euractiv.com

Maximilian Henning, Euractiv:

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.

Good. I hope to see more of this — not from a place of anti-Americanism, but as a recognition of the world’s dependence on U.S. technology and recognizing a need for competition elsewhere. This industry is too important to have so few dependencies mostly headquartered in a single (volatile) country. We re-learn this every time Amazon goes down.