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> Especially if there are no big geopolitical risks - which there aren't with SAS for the French government. Are you serious? Especially when officials working
by soraminazuki 1y ago
> Especially if there are no big geopolitical risks - which there aren't with SAS for the French government.
Are you serious? Especially when officials working for well-respected international organizations are being sanctioned for their work out of political reasons? This entire article wouldn't exist if there were no geopolitical risk.
From the article:
> “Carniaux … was asked by the [French Senate] commission to guarantee that French citizens’ data hosted by Microsoft would never be transmitted to foreign authorities without the agreement of the French authorities. He replied: ‘No, I can’t guarantee that,'” the report stated.
If this isn't geopolitical risk, I don't know what is.
It's clear that your stated job constantly exposed you to all the talking points of mega cloud platforms. But there are negative consequences too, and they're very real.
- tsimionescu 1y agoOops, I've made a huge mistake here, apologies. I confused SAS for SAP, the German business stats company. My post was entirely from this wrong perspective, that it would be replacing EU business software with open source software. In light of the new understanding, I fully agree with you that it was extremely shortsighted and sad to have tech leadership oppose a project which directly gives a US company access to such sensitive data with open source alternatives.
- robertlagrant 1y agoThat makes much more sense! Swapping SAP for some Python scripts is pretty risky.