Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company? How depraved is our dear Bundeskanzler?! The source code of each software update will be made available to the German service provider. Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?
German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft
Submitted 4 months ago by h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
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n3cr0@lemmy.world 4 months ago
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 months ago
Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company?
SAP is German.
Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?
Let's not pretend that people do this with open source software either. Especially obfuscated mechanisms might not even be seen by the few people who do check it.
raef@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable but I do not know of any examples. Do you?
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
People notice the oddest things, look at the xz malware incident. All because some guy figured a decompression subroutine in his software was taking a bit longer than expected.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 months ago
Ah, Olaf Scholz, already an infamous corp slut.
barsquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The idea was rejected? Sane. Lovely to see.
feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Source?
riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Aaaand that will cost the taxpayers an undisclosed amount of money
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This bespells doom
far_university1990@feddit.de 4 months ago
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Isn’t it Kommentärsektion? Not a German, so just asking
far_university1990@feddit.de 4 months ago
Kommentar ist die Schreibweise aus dem Duden, es ist kein ä enthalten. Auch in Verbindung mit Sektion wird dort kein ä hinzugefügt.
Mir ist generell kein Wort bekannt, bei dem sich ein a zu ä, o zu ö oder u zu ü ändert, wenn es mit einem anderen Wort kombiniert wird.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
"Failed idocs and a deleted HUs have caused the German government to cease all function. "
wolf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Seems SAP’s investment in good arguments pays off.
OTOH Europe and Germany have obvious problems in the cloud sector: They cannot do it on their own and thus are depending on either the USA or other countries who have the know-how.
Not a situation you want to find yourself in, when IT is the backbone which keeps everything running.
Luckily German government’s investment in paper, floppy drives and fax machines makes it secure against attacks towards IT infrastructure… ;-)
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Germany and ping ponging between proprietary and free software every 2 years, name a better duo
NafiTheBear@pawb.social 4 months ago
It is like… Each time we showed how well you can live with open source, Microsoft comes around with an even bigger coffin of lobby money.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 4 months ago
The worst thing in that is the amount of money and human time it must take just to migrate everything. People only looking at the bottom line is the bane of IT…
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s not just lobbying. The expertise to build and certify what Microsoft did for government cloud is expensive and rare. Open source still needs a third party to provide that level of support, because the documentation is more important than the technical capabilities.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hehe. I think you mean suitcase but this works, too.