In discussing policy solution hypotheticals for the US, bodies like the Department of Commerce, the FCC and OSHA are household names but I've lived in Ireland for years and can only name Euratom off the top of my head and need the use of a search engine to get the names of any other EU agencies.
FCC equiv in Ireland would be some combo of Comreg and the BAI, OSHA equivalent would be the HSA, US Department of Commerce is broad enough that it doesn't have a single equivalent. But that's just Ireland, it'll be different in every country.
Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Agency_for_Safety_and...
If you see a OSHA violation at your workplace you have to go to the local authority in your member county which has different rules than each other country.
It's surprisingly good and shows how Microsoft manages to influence decisions on small to massively large scales. In European countries and the EU itself.
> “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”
Source: consulting from another country, have US clients.
I don't think I've ever seen a tariff being applied to consulting, have you? I remember a contract that escaped tariffs because the subject was excepted from an exception from an exception, which suggests that slightly different work would be covered, because the deepest exception would not apply. But in the event, my/our consulting was covered by the deepest exception.
I do know there's a default 30% withholding tax on stuff like IP licensing, but that's different from tariffs (it's just income tax on digital goods, and usually lower for countries that have tax deals with the US (to avoid double taxation).
I’d imagine most of the sysadmin world globally just straight up collapses if Active Directory and Office disappears