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Why would you need a national software stack when there's open source solutions for everything?
by goda90 3y ago
Why would you need a national software stack when there's open source solutions for everything?
- Aerbil313 3y agoTech nerds often don't realize how much the world of software is subject to the real world. You can be cut off access to any technology if your country is not willing to give its natural resources to another. No different from trade sanctions. Open source is a bunch of individuals helpless in the face of orders from Pentagon to close it all up. * You won't have the expertise to quickly build your own solutions when this happens you are cut off access to a certain technology. A browser is a beast to implement as we all know. * You can't trust that e.g. Chromium as audited by American "experts" is really not phoning home if it detects the IP is from e.g Turkish defense corporation A's RD center. * You need to have that software-skilled workforce anyway to ensure technological progress of your country.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoYou mean they block SSL and you have to use plain HTTP?
- Aerbil313 3y agoSSL is but one form of centralization of technology.