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Are retaliatory #EU #tariffs on digital services possible? Do you just have to call them by another name?
Reading up on GATS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Trade_in_Services
«Estimates for ad valorem tariff equivalents of services trade restrictions for cross-border trade [...] ranging as high as 2000% when trade flows are relatively inelastic, as opposed to between 20% and 300% in most other sectors.»
"GATS the way"
Looks like tariffs on services are possible and are being considered, together with a bunch of other options.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-tariffs-counter-strike-big-tech-us-banks-donald-trump/
Big Tech oligopolies are largely parasitical. If you slapped a 100 % tariff on them, replacing them would be painful but possibly not all that inflationary. (Compared to, say, rebuilding a car manufacturing supply chain from scratch.) A 30 % price increase for Office365 was apparently enough to make millions to switch to LibreOffice! Try 300 % and see.
#OVH shareholders seem to believe that the #tariffs are coming for the competition. The stock went up 20 % in a day (30 % in a month) with volumes 10 times higher than usual. It's still down 40 % from the 2021 IPO (7 months after the Strasbourg fire) and 60 % down from the 2022 peaks. (Does OVH benefit from building its own servers, so it doesn't care much whether Dell et al. are hit by tariffs?)
https://live.euronext.com/en/product/equities/FR0014005HJ9-XPAR
@nemobis where did you get info about millions switching....
I don't see any significant progress
https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#month,version
@Oleksii Thanks for the chart! Looks like I have misread https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html . If their source is the same chart, they must mean that peak of 952k weekly downloads. TDF remains cautious on the estimate of active users. Do we have any idea how many uploads are new installs rather than version updates?
@nemobis maybe @libreoffice knows how to distinguish new downloads from updates?
It would be difficult IMO.