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Recent actions by the United States on the international stage remind us of one essential truth: the sovereignty of states is never guaranteed.
We are not here to comment on hot‑off‑the‑press geopolitical news. Yet it is impossible not to link it to digital. Every decision taken elsewhere inevitably impacts us here: on our infrastructures, our data, our usage patterns, and our ability to decide for ourselves.
As Quentin Adam (CEO of Clever Cloud, whom we know well) correctly explains, we are entering a new phase: what he calls techno‑feudalism, where whoever controls the platforms and the infrastructures also controls, de facto, a share of political sovereignty. When rules become reversible, when contracts are no longer enough, “deals” no longer protect. At best they reassure.
These questions also affect France directly. The recent decision by the National Assembly to deploy the Microsoft suite via its subsidiary Bleu illustrates how our institutions remain dependent on solutions whose control and governance escape, despite any claims, our country and Europe.
At LINAGORA, we have long defended an alternative path: open, European, and operational. Not a promise nor an abstract discourse, but concrete tools already used by public and private actors, even whole governments such as Mauritius, to collaborate, produce, and decide without surrendering mastery of their data.
Our President, Alexandre Zapolsky, reminded us: if the issue is budgetary, then we have no excuse. We are offering FREE 577 licenses of our platform Twake.ai to the National Assembly, until the end of the term.
Because for us, this has never been a matter of money, but of principles, coherence, and responsibility.
This is not about opposing. It is about choosing.
Choosing to build rather than spend.
Choosing infrastructures rather than contractual illusions.
Choosing collective courage, where it becomes indispensable.
