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German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft (www.heise.de)
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[–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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