Tbh this kind of hyperbole makes you come across as deeply unserious, the kind of argument that sets back any argument for OSS being used.
You’re ignoring the relatively stable Biden years in between, if Haris had won I doubt we’d be having this conversation.
Things are substantially worse under this regime than the first. Governments mostly don’t flip their entire IT and digital infrastructure planning on a whim. The three major governments on the continent haven’t even been particularly stable over the last 4 years to push through this kind of change.
Earlier this year is the first time the general public have started feeling vulnerable to an unpredictable actor. That’s when govt might do something about it, I’m not sure any have a particular mandate for digital sovereignty. I’m speaking here as someone who has regularly petitioned govt to use more OSS over the last 20 odd years.
Funds need allocating, teams built out (what you’re suggesting is a huge enterprise), a plan, all that would take years before any practical implementation. They’re also not going to abandon existing contracts, that would be a catastrophic waste of public finds.
Take the rollout of the encompass health software in Northern Ireland, 18 months for go-live of a prebuilt well understood piece of software. That doesn’t include any of the preliminary planning work or testing. Small population, relatively few hospitals - a relatively small job. What you’re suggesting is decades of work without a wartime-esque effort.
I’m suggesting that it should be a ‘wartime-esque’ effort
And biden put on a better face, but the industry’s been heading this way for a while. The software is just fucking shit on its own and using consumer commitment to keep profits up. No government required. American shit has been at the bleeding edge of enshittification.
Tbh this kind of hyperbole makes you come across as deeply unserious, the kind of argument that sets back any argument for OSS being used.
You’re ignoring the relatively stable Biden years in between, if Haris had won I doubt we’d be having this conversation.
Things are substantially worse under this regime than the first. Governments mostly don’t flip their entire IT and digital infrastructure planning on a whim. The three major governments on the continent haven’t even been particularly stable over the last 4 years to push through this kind of change.
Earlier this year is the first time the general public have started feeling vulnerable to an unpredictable actor. That’s when govt might do something about it, I’m not sure any have a particular mandate for digital sovereignty. I’m speaking here as someone who has regularly petitioned govt to use more OSS over the last 20 odd years.
Funds need allocating, teams built out (what you’re suggesting is a huge enterprise), a plan, all that would take years before any practical implementation. They’re also not going to abandon existing contracts, that would be a catastrophic waste of public finds.
Take the rollout of the encompass health software in Northern Ireland, 18 months for go-live of a prebuilt well understood piece of software. That doesn’t include any of the preliminary planning work or testing. Small population, relatively few hospitals - a relatively small job. What you’re suggesting is decades of work without a wartime-esque effort.
I’m suggesting that it should be a ‘wartime-esque’ effort
And biden put on a better face, but the industry’s been heading this way for a while. The software is just fucking shit on its own and using consumer commitment to keep profits up. No government required. American shit has been at the bleeding edge of enshittification.