…and the Dutch
Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor’s APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.
Interesting that the reasoning is reportedly about control and exit costs, not just price. That matches what I keep hearing from people who run large deployments: the lock-in tax shows up years later, when you discover your workflows, integrations, and data shapes have all quietly molded themselves around one vendor’s APIs. A tax authority is one of the few orgs with the patience and staff to actually pull off a sovereign-stack migration, so this will be a useful data point either way. Hope someone documents the migration honestly, because the failure modes would be more instructive than the press release.
USA just switched off starlink in Ukraine. They blocked Microsoft accounts and visa cards from ICC members. You can’t rely on USA tech. It’s got a killswitch and a madman ready to push the button.
And you americans, go out there and vote Democrat, you can do politics in third parties later if you have a country left after the election.
And you americans, go out there and vote Democrat*, you can do politics in third parties later if you have a country left after the election.
*Vote as far left as possible in the Democrat primaries too or it’s all for nothing.
4 months too late my man
Democrats there are of the same capital class though.
You are not wrong but they are the lesser evil. I mean either try to change the system or burn it down. Doesn’t seem lime America is anywhere near a revolution so the only thing to do is vote the furthest left you can.
The Russian bots in here trying to fix the election are annoying
It’s true, but try this:
- defeat the bigger evil first
- then defeat the smaller evil
- ???
- communism (or whatever it is you want)
Wonder why 10 upvotes for you and negative 20 for me when we mean the same thing 😰
I agree that democrats (as they exist now) are a bad party. However, the US system is broken in a way that disadvantages third parties. If you vote for a 3rd party that is left of the Democrats (or don’t vote at all), you split the vote and Trump wins again. I think the US is in a bind, but the best way out is to vote Dem and turf corporate/zionist Dems like Schumer in the primaries. It will take time, but it will work.
Some people on Lemmy have been using “both parties bad” rhetoric to discourage people from voting for the Democrats, which only benefits Trump and his gang. Your post probably got associated with that rhetorical strategy.
Definitely vote of course, didn’t mean it as anything else really. I think you hit the nail on it. Meanwhile I have already been accused of many things now 😭
They spoke in Priorities. You didn’t. Hardly a mystery.
You have to start shifting the Overton Window from somewhere.
So tired of this tankie shit
Microslop is a security risk. An OS with a backdoor isn’t useful for anything but gaming.
Why would you want a backdoor on the OS of your gaming machine?
Now if they also directed the license cost savings back toward funding their newly chosen oss projects, we’d be golden.
Imagine. Companies that instead pay X amount pay X*.25 or something. Small cost for the business compared to Microsoft and huge boost in revenue to improve OSS.
B-but a study funded by CCIA Europe (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta…) says EU cloud sovereignty rules would cost Europe up to €233 billion. (Conveniently, it doesn’t count the benefits of not depending on them.)
So considerate of them, worrying about our wallets out of pure altruism.
Even just a one-time monthly payment equivalent would be massive. I’ve seen companies that spend well over 60k a month on microsoft licenses.
Imagine they paid their licensing fees to a new FOSS project for a year, one which aims to functionally replace the core of these cloud suites. Like file sharing/hosting/email/chat all integrated similar to Google workspace and M365. That would be a huge win for the people.
I agree. Digital sovereignty is important for the EU. The less we are in the pocket of the US the better.
Digital anarchy is important for the regular people. The more you take technology in your own hands, the less you are at the whims of centralised services.
One of those changes that requires and entire generation of workers to retire… <cough> boomers <cough>
Until that happens, they stand in the way of change. After they are put out to pasture, change occurs at a normal pace, according to logic and reason, as it always should. Even in normal times.
I expect to see a lot of shifts in things as the boomers finally begin to die off. Medical advances are extending their lives to freakish extremes, but so far not one of them has proven to be immortal. .
I worked at a health company as a manager and was told not to electronize records keeping because they couldn’t afford to hire computer literate people for the grunt work. I was told to use whiteboards and laminated printouts.
Get me out of this fucking shithole USA…
The detail that stands out to me is that this was the tax authority specifically — the institution with the most sensitive possible data trove deciding the sovereignty question matters more than the migration roadmap. That’s a different calculus than a regular ministry would make.
The DPA precedent probably weighed in too. The Dutch data protection authority has been aggressive on exactly this (the Schrems II follow-throughs, the earlier government guidance against US cloud for personal data). Once your regulator has signaled the position, staying the course turns a technical decision into a legal exposure.
