GC-OS: Warum die kanadische Regierung eine eigene Software entwickeln sollte
GC-OS: why the Government of Canada should develop its own software
GC-OS: Warum die kanadische Regierung eine eigene Software entwickeln sollte
GC-OS: why the Government of Canada should develop its own software
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Microsoft recently disabled the Office 365 account of the ICC’s chief prosecutor.
We shouldn’t rely on American tech giants for our critical government business.
Umm I’m not sure that i want the federal government building things like operating systems. Economies of scale just aren’t there to make it well, which is important. If there is serious concern about the US government exerting power over commercial software vendors then maybe support open source?
Absolutely not!!!
Apparently, according to this guy, it’s so easy to write your own Operating System the Federal Government could do it… LMAO
This guy has absolutely zero knowledge about the topic he’s writing about.
Our own Military is moving away from self management of our networks because it’s becoming too expensive and difficult (and I gladly welcome it for many reasons). Why the fuck would we go in the opposite direction for the rest of the Federal Government?
It’s going to be hard to convince most software engineers working for private sector to work for the federal government unless you all the sudden increase the payscale by a lot.
As an employee of a large tech company it can be annoying enough jumping through various levels of management to procure licences, servers etc. As well as communicate project milestones through a different set of many levels of management. I can’t imagine the federal government would be any more efficient.
It would be really tough to get off American services, but if you were going to try, it might be better to just support Canadian companies more. It’s also really too bad the Trudeau government agreed to essentially give up on Canadian data sovereignty as part of cusma because that would’ve been a good first step.
This was expressed by many staff back when management made decisions higher up to adopt software and server services from American for profit corporations. In fact, many Cdn staff were more educated and competent than the sales staff coming from California.
Canadians needs to acknowledge that we abandoned a lot of our national independence by adopting American corporatocracies in everything from software, resources, patents and manufacturing.
I think it’s obvious going forward that any relationship canada has with american companies needs to be avoided, Because they may be directed or used by the U.S. government to abandon its allies.
With tech becoming more and more pervasive in everything we do (see AI for a recent example) it could make sense to internalize software development instead of paying expensive contractors.
But I’d be very very concerned about how to keep such a department productive. A huge problem in software development, when there’s no motivating factor, is that development goes on „forever“ and timelines just infinitely stretch out. In private industry the backstop for this is usually that the company will die if they don’t release (a good motivator), but you can see some companies sitting on piles of cash who don’t feel the pressure to execute – they just don’t ever release anything. That would be an extremely expensive problem, add to that the fact that this is likely to be the most comfortable group of programmers in the country (job security, govt benefits, pension) – they will feel no stress.
I’m not saying it can’t be done. But how will we keep them accountable/productive? We might be better off hiring a few good Software architects instead to steer engagements with the govts interests well represented and get more out of them.
They should not only do this, but make code auditable versions for citizen use.
We don’t need the US companies and intelligence agencies stealing information and performing espionage-by-contract in our education, research, journalistic and medical areas.