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If I were a foreign company, stories like this would make me hesitant to do business with American software business. Granted, many of you have pointed out that
by FillardMillmore 7y ago
If I were a foreign company, stories like this would make me hesitant to do business with American software business. Granted, many of you have pointed out that Adobe's model (Creative Cloud) is a contributing factor to the degree this is harmful, but the driving force here is still American policy.
- commandlinefan 7y ago> American policy And… which other government has never made a surprising decision?
- FillardMillmore 7y agoThats a fair rebuttal. I suppose the crux of the matter is the strength of relations between two countries when making the decision to purchase software from a foreign company.
- 4ntonius8lock 7y agoThe difference is other governments can't enforce things like the US can. The world runs on oil, oil is priced in USD. USD are controlled by the USA. Aside from the USA controlling much of the internet and much of the worlds seas.
- hrktb 7y agoExcept the US government doesn’t massively run on Indian or German software. I imagine the day Microsoft is dragged into this. Even with the current version or windows/office/exchange server/sharepoint still running “offline”, imagine not getting security updates, no support, no additional support anymore. In a way this is a threat that always existed, and many govs have tried serveral attempts to get away from MS and other foreign companies, but up until now the threat was hypothetic, and the cost seemed tremendous in comparison. But not anymore I guess.