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Oh, they are writing checks. They have been writing big checks to create GAIA-X and a few other things as the European alternative sovereign cloud. But basicall
by holowoodman 1y ago
Oh, they are writing checks. They have been writing big checks to create GAIA-X and a few other things as the European alternative sovereign cloud. But basically no-one is using it because "but my Outlook doesn't work!". So it is all wasted money because of stupid bureaucrats and politicians as users who cannot be arsed to remember that their email isn't in Outlook anymore...
You might say it is a little more complicated, but actually it isn't. Nobody wants any kind of change, so things stay as they are. Only the Americans can change things and change your Windows/Outlook/Azure, because then "it is like it is, we have to update"...
- raverbashing 1y agoDid Gaia-X ship anything besides web pages with fluff and more 'policy documents'? One line of functioning code?
- holowoodman 1y agoYes, there was something: https://gaia-x-hub.de/en/funding-projects/ https://gaia-x-hub.de/en/funding-projects/ But as always, most of it is pork for some cronies anyways. One related thing that has been developed/packaged is the "sovereign cloud stack" https://scs.community/ https://scs.community/ . However, it didn't see much use yet, for the reasons mentioned.
- nosianu 1y agoIn the last discussion about this that I read here and participated in, as someone who got paid from that fund for a while, I think the consensus was that the project was less meant to deliver something tangible, and more of a camouflaged general subsidy for participating European software firms.
- nand_gate 1y agoWas anything valuable actually built? Thought those 'projects' were just subsidy... Europe could easily have its own stack but I'm not sure taxpayer money would ever reach the right people to make it happen.