Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech s...
by woodpanel on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:24AM
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When many goverment bodies more or less have to use foreign software-infrastructure, then "maginot lines" sound reasonable.
Very reasonable indeed IMO if e.g. German police has to use AWS because of lack of alternatives, or the countless local authorities running on windows.
On the other hand, it is not the US to blame for their tech-supremacy. It is Germany and France to blame.
There might be many reasons to cite why we lack behind. But the whole spirit behind a government-google, a government-aws, government-yaddayadda comes across as being more part of the problem than part of the solution.
Very reasonable indeed IMO if e.g. German police has to use AWS because of lack of alternatives, or the countless local authorities running on windows.
On the other hand, it is not the US to blame for their tech-supremacy. It is Germany and France to blame.
There might be many reasons to cite why we lack behind. But the whole spirit behind a government-google, a government-aws, government-yaddayadda comes across as being more part of the problem than part of the solution.