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Love the sentiment but 'hosting' at that scale is an incredibly complicated thing, way, way beyond most entities ability. It'd be like the government designing
by jollybean 5y ago
Love the sentiment but 'hosting' at that scale is an incredibly complicated thing, way, way beyond most entities ability.
It'd be like the government designing their own ASICs or making their own OS.
But the part about avoiding vendor lock-in would seem like an appropriate measure.
- Ericson2314 5y agoCustom ASCIs or OS is Cap Ex, and I am saying that part is allowed to be outsourced provided the IP is unencumbered. It's just the operations that must be done in-house. To avoid some "idiots at the wheel situation", part of the tech transfer exercise will ensure that the deployment isn't too brittle. E.g. the government should be able to make some trivial Kernel modification and redeploy everything without issue. Maybe even also fab and install a slightly modified ASIC too.
- jollybean 5y agoIt has nothing to do with IP it has to do with competency. Our government is not capable of efficiently building and managing AWS style infra. Or designing new ASICS for consumer products. Helping with R&D? Strategic planning? Sure. But not doing stuff like that at scale.