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The reponse is going balls deep on Foss but I don't think your avg westoid regime is willing to open that Pandora's box.
Remember they ain't worried about us here, they just big mad US acting out and disturbing cash flows
Either EU can do it now or later or be a chinaman or daddy sa. Vassal, which ever comes first.
I mean, GMail is from Google who uses Linux/GNU extensively (as per https://www.computerworld.com/article/1612523/the-story-behind-google-s-in-house-desktop-linux.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175182 )
Even M$ supports using Outlook on Linux/GNU via the webapps (see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-365-and-outlook-for-linux/0eeaef13-c337-4c92-8260-8ac7fdf4df9f ) and back in the day they ran Hotmail on FreeBSD ( see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31113296 )
The issue here isn't the use of FOSS per se but that these folks aren't tech savvy and don't want to run things themselves - they'd rather pay someone else to do it. They want "enterprise customer support" and all that. And then whoever they pay might end up bailing out due to fear of US sanctions ... which sadly even Swiss banks aren't immune to.
The sooner they stop/prevent/workaround the abuse of power by the US here, the better.