Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Except the tech companies are among the politicians’ biggest “donors”.

  Public cloud computing companies that want to host government IT workloads still have to be Fedramp compliant. Doesn’t matter how much their donors pay, if they aren’t Fedramp compliant they can’t bid for the work.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I dunno what “Fedramp compliant” means? Presumably Apple and Google aren’t bidding for these contracts, which are the ones with the power to change the industry.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I dunno what “Fedramp compliant” means?

      Its the whole point of this point in this thread. A set of standards the company has to meet to be able to do government work.

      Presumably Apple and Google aren’t bidding for these contracts, which are the ones with the power to change the industry.

      Google is, so is Microsoft as is Amazon which is also the point of this post. They had to meet the security and interoperability standards to get the government work. No amount of donor money allows a company to bypass Fedramp compliance for this work.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Its the whole point of this point in this thread.

        Weird that the article never uses the word that is it’s subject…

        No amount of donor money allows a company to bypass Fedramp compliance for this work.

        Oh, honey…

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  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah but donations can help make procurement tenders slightly in favour of donors. Or get inside scoop so they have time to be ready.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Donors would still have to meet the Fedramp compliance standards. So this supports Doctorow’s point.

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• Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s easy to think of tech as being companies that primarily produce electronics or operate information services, but that’s not the case. Every company uses (and often creates) technology in various forms that benefit from standards and interoperation.

  Connected devices benefit from standardized Wi-Fi. Cars benefit from standardized fuel- both in ICE (octane ratings, pumps) and electric (charging connectors, protocols). It even applies to companies that make simple molded plastic, because the molds can be created/used at many factories, including short-term contract manufacturing.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t know what any of that has to do with what I said.

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    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My point is that every company is a tech company.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s not what anyone is talking about and you know it. Everyone knows what “tech company” means colloquially.

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      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And every company is a logistics company?

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