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?
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.
Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience
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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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.
Aaaand that will cost the taxpayers an undisclosed amount of money
This bespells doom
"Failed idocs and a deleted HUs have caused the German government to cease all function. "
Seems SAP’s investment in good arguments pays off.
OTOH Europe and Germany have obvious problems in the cloud sector: They cannot do it on their own and thus are depending on either the USA or other countries who have the know-how.
Not a situation you want to find yourself in, when IT is the backbone which keeps everything running.
Luckily German government’s investment in paper, floppy drives and fax machines makes it secure against attacks towards IT infrastructure… ;-)
