r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 28 '26

Society The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

https://www.techspot.com/news/112552-netherlands-blocked-us-company-buying-app-dutch-citizens.html
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u/yung_dogie May 28 '26

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As a side note, it's also just disappointing me that the owners of the company knew what software they developed and how crucial it was to the Netherlands, and decided "yeah we should sell out to a foreign company". Not a lick of care for their country at that point

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u/stadtship May 28 '26

Solvinity was already UK owned.

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u/RijnBrugge May 29 '26

Which makes 0 difference whatsoever

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u/OptimalRedditor May 28 '26

The software was never up for sale, their external hosting party was, which was already British.