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I'm really glad people are starting to wake up to this. It's been the case for a while, but we've been sliding more and more into the hands of the US. Microso

by dijit 1y ago

I'm really glad people are starting to wake up to this. It's been the case for a while, but we've been sliding more and more into the hands of the US. Microsoft used to ship software that was local first, and removing the activation servers wouldn't have affected deployed software, now though? A removal of a subscription is an immediate revocation. It's worse with Google Docs. And of course, nobody knows how to run servers anymore unless they're in US tech company owned and operated datacenters, this is absolutely terrifying, but truthfully it's the office products that have the most capability to cause harm.

greiskul 1y ago
It's the main reason Brazil has invested so much in trying to use open source software for goverment institutions. There is a number of reasons, but digital sovereignty is probably the argument that actually convinced our politicians that it is important. Even Lula visited the international free software forum back in 2009: https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/brazilian-president-lula-da-silva-brings-international-attention-free-software/ https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/brazilian-president...
kkfx 1y ago
The real problem is average mentality: many here for instance still want paper mail, the office, some also on call from home dress with suit and tie, complete with tie clip and shoes, in their own home! Efficiency is an oxymoron for them, being disorganized and pretend the contrary sticking to mere apparent organization is normal thing. Learning organizations? Most are still at Taylor-Weber-Fayol models... There is a deep social fracture between "the old dying cohort" and a new cohort still struggling to emerge and still without a clear shape. The result is full-quite-quitting mode and sub-par performances on anything with entrepreneurs playing the old https://i.ibb.co/gdTBXT0/Corp-Whining-Hist.jpg https://i.ibb.co/gdTBXT0/Corp-Whining-Hist.jpg deepening the fracture.

by dijit 1y ago

greiskul 1y ago

It's the main reason Brazil has invested so much in trying to use open source software for goverment institutions. There is a number of reasons, but digital sovereignty is probably the argument that actually convinced our politicians that it is important. Even Lula visited the international free software forum back in 2009: https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/brazilian-president-lula-da-silva-brings-international-attention-free-software/ https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/brazilian-president...

kkfx 1y ago

The real problem is average mentality: many here for instance still want paper mail, the office, some also on call from home dress with suit and tie, complete with tie clip and shoes, in their own home! Efficiency is an oxymoron for them, being disorganized and pretend the contrary sticking to mere apparent organization is normal thing. Learning organizations? Most are still at Taylor-Weber-Fayol models... There is a deep social fracture between "the old dying cohort" and a new cohort still struggling to emerge and still without a clear shape. The result is full-quite-quitting mode and sub-par performances on anything with entrepreneurs playing the old https://i.ibb.co/gdTBXT0/Corp-Whining-Hist.jpg https://i.ibb.co/gdTBXT0/Corp-Whining-Hist.jpg deepening the fracture.