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Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”
(www.propublica.org)
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I have a weird take whenever stuff like this comes up but its in my humble opinion that world governments shouldn't rely on corporate developed software or even maybe hardware.
This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Basically I'm saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Never gonna happen, and I'm sure there are issues with this solution, but its a hypothetical I think about whenever something tech related and the government comes up in the news, which is pretty much every day now.
Well, I would suppose that a government, if it really want, have more than one way to solve this problem, it is not a small business that can't fight back. And it can fight back in more ways than just "I will switch vendor"
Yes, but it would be a nightmare to communicate even with your allies if everyone has a different OS running on differen hardware since at some point you will need to communicate with someone.
I work for one of the world's largest proprietary software companies.
100% agree with you
Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.
Countries are not run in their best interest. They are run in the best interest of their ultra wealthy.
Oracle?
Yeah, Oracle.
Honestly curious how you concluded this
Totally agree, but at this point Microsoft is so ingrained in the US federal government that it's practically a branch of it.
On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?
Hey, it is not an full OS but the French Gendarmerie is using their custom Ubuntu since the end of windows 7
No, and I'm sure the various OS's that have been made by Governments have their (sometimes severe) flaws. But it is a potential solution to government reliance on corporate technologies nevertheless.
And also community profits. But I don't see it happen because politicians are dumb. In my country (EU) they still use X and Facebook only to communicate on social media. Microsoft is also heavily embedded in all pores.