Martin Boller     4d ago
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Although tons of words have been written already on Europe's cloud predicament, I've found that it makes sense to briefly describe the very high level picture of where we are. "We rely on non-European SaaS based on non-European clouds":
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-situation/
The European Cloud/Computing Situation - Bert Hubert's writings

A brief addition to the 50000 words I wrote earlier on the cloud: what is the European situation? Software Initially, companies and governments would buy licenses to software. You’d typically have a piece of software in your office, on one of your computers, to calculate payroll with. Most other computers would have copies of WordPerfect installed. This software would function for years without updates or maintenance. If WordPerfect-the-company would disappear, you would not even notice.

Bert Hubert's writings
Jul 11 at 10:20amWeb
Show threadAngela Scholder4d ago
@bert_hubert LOL! WP5.1 and even WP6.... I've done a lot of work on these, especially the first.
I even did the full formatting and editing for a club magazine on it. Only diagrams were made by someone else in AutoCAD, then glued in the print of the text, and then it was photocopier work.
Show threadU.Lancier4d ago

@bert_hubert this includes all levels of authorities and administrations. Even the smallest village uses IT today, but only very few are capable of maintaining their digital hard and soft infrastructure.

All data is constantly at risk not only to be corrupted or lost but to be exploited or destroyed by criminals with or without foreign affiliations.

Administrations *need* to reclaim sovereignty of their data, software and hardware. „Other people's computers“ are no safe means at all.