https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190520-01.html Following the U.S. administration's decision to effectively ban American companies from doing trade 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 longer get support and updates for the Android operating system. They will also not have access to the proprietary Google apps and services like Gmail and Google Play. [...] without access to the default app store on most stock Android phones they will miss important security updates for the apps installed through it. [...] The following lessons can be drawn from this case: 1. The FSFE urges users to use Free Software operating systems and applications on their computing devices. [...] 2. Governments and especially the European Union should invest more resources in Free Software to gain independence from large enterprises and other states. 3. The FSFE urges companies to use as much Free Software as possible in their supply chains. [...] The earlier allegations against Huawei already showed that code for all critical infrastructure should be published under a Free Software licence. The latest episode of the Huawei affair illustrates that the same applies to apps and services. Just days before the European Elections, this should be a wake-up call for the next constituent Parliament to ask the European Commission for European directives that foster independence of European technical infrastructure and that build on Free Software, starting with the demand to release publicly funded software as public code.