Chancellor Scholz promotes "sovereign" government cloud from SAP and Microsoft
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Following a meeting with SAP, the Chancellor personally campaigned for the company's Delos Cloud. But the federal states rebuffed Scholz.
  • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    5 months ago

    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?

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      123·
      5 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.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I’m aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable and making open source software effectively proprietary but I do not know of any examples of people doing that. Do you?

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
          31·
          5 months ago

          They meant backdoors hidden in plain sight, so making it readable, but (EDIT: seemingly) innocent. People do that.

      • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 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.