diff --git a/news/2019/news-20190520-01.en.xhtml b/news/2019/news-20190520-01.en.xhtml index 8fbe640ba4..841ffbf436 100644 --- a/news/2019/news-20190520-01.en.xhtml +++ b/news/2019/news-20190520-01.en.xhtml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) presents three essential lessons from this case.

Following the U.S. administration's decision to effectively ban -American companies from doing trade with the Chinese company Huawei, +American companies from trading with with the Chinese company Huawei, Google suspended all business with the company. This affects all software which is not covered under Free Software licences. In practice, Huawei's upcoming and potentially also current phones will no @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ non-free components of most stock Android devices have numerous downsides for users, as the FSFE has documented since 2012. Now, the current case demonstrates that even tech giants like Huawei face similar dependencies and vendor -lock-in effects as any individual users if they rely on proprietary +lock-in effects as those of any individual users if they rely on proprietary software.

Three Conclusions

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  • The FSFE urges companies to use as much Free Software as possible in their supply chains. Proprietary software - makes a company dependent on its vendor and this vendor's government. + makes a company dependent on its vendor and that vendor's government. The current case shows that the US was able to force Google to stop delivery of its proprietary products – but could not stop delivery of the Free Software components of Android. Had Huawei invested more