Kanada könnte Millionen einsparen, wenn es ein eigenes Betriebssystem entwickelt, anstatt sich auf Microsoft Windows zu verlassen
https://theconversation.com/canada-could-save-millions-by-developing-its-own-operating-system-instead-of-relying-on-microsoft-windows-294027
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Why develop our own operating system from scratch when well developed open source Linux alternatives exist that we can use or even fork if we want our own flavour.
It is a massive national security issue to rely on Microsoft or other US tech products/infrastructure. The US has already demonstrated willingness to weaponize this by blocking ICC officials.
Some form of Linux or a particular slightly adapted Canada distro would be best path forward for all government and official industrial, economic, societal purposes is good path forward.
Creating your own OS is a surefire way to ensure your country is the most vulnerable cybersecurity target in the world. When I was a teenager, I found an exploit on a North Korean state website allowing me access to some admin permissions. Exactly how secure do you think their state-created RedStar OS is? Reliance on Microsoft means there’s a material risk of CIA/NSA backdoors in our systems, yes. But reliance on our own homebrew just means there’s a material risk of 200 additional countries finding vulnerabilities in our system our ragtag team of public sector software engineers didn’t consider. Did you see how well the Phoenix Pay System worked? And you want our public sector making operating systems now to protect stste secrets??
Politicians and bureaucrats are will get a lot of nice fancy michelin star dinners with Microsoft lobbyists if this proposal is taken seriously.
I don’t think Canada should do this.
I think the UN should do this.
While it’s important to protect our sovereignty, it’s also important to not artificially close ourselves off. Integration of technology across the planet is important for modern society. Having an operating system be privately owned instead of treated as a public service is not sustainable. But putting it to any one country to control is also exposed to biases and nefarious behaviour.
The UN is tasked with large widespread systems like this already. Add this one more.
I wish we had a Canadian based distro of Linux. Speaking as a fed employee, Microsoft has been the bane of my existence.
With Ai and in light of ArtCraft, this is not far off in the future. AI will certainly make me lose my job, but I’m also glad it will have consequences for Adobe and MS and many others.
Technically we have a Canadian built OS called QNX. It’s not a desktop operating system but a real-time embedded os. There is a good chance you use it every day in your car as many if not most modern cars run it.
I nominate the same people that did the arriveCAN app.
Fantastic app at a reasonable price.
Im sure the Phoenix pay people can help too.
I can’t trust the government with software
Canada should also stop relying on US social media companies. Too much business is conducted on WhatsApp and hosted on US infrastructure. We need diversification. Many countries built their own messaging platforms, like China and Russia.
[https://shurava.com](https://shurava.com), Telegram, Viber are not American.
Well every country can save millions if they do this but its easier said than done. Firstly, making OS is difficult. After that, asking people to adopt it is more challenging. Lastly, for this to be successful you want private companies to make softwares that support your new OS.
Realistically they don’t need to develop much of anything. There’s already tons of Linux distros that could be taken off the shelf for most office tasks. Specialized software I guess would need to be ported or replaced but that could be something done over time.
I can’t imagine that such a project would be successful. Windows is a world class product, it’s not some us government project
Corel used to have a Linux distro. They tried to use the Ubuntu model before Ubuntu did it, but without the backing of a billionaire willing to tank resources for a decade. Needless to say, it’s worth more now as a collector’s item than it was as an OS.
It’s not the OS. It’s the applications that ride on it. And the applications that ride into those applications.
If you’re an accountant you need to be able to pull data down to your desktop via an API to the central system.
Home brew or even Linux just doesn’t have that built.
There are a number of reasons for switching away from Microsoft but the idea that our government could produce something similar to Windows for cheaper isn’t one of them. A Unix variant could work though.
I’m not optimistic given our track record. Would hope we cut a deal with the EU and use whatever thing they’re developing.
I can only imagine how tech illiterate government workers are going to try to wrap their heads around an operating system that isn’t Windows or MacOS.
It is astounding despite how well developed and user friendly Linux distros are nowadays.