Things are very different with software. For starters we don’t know which influence the US government currently wields over Microsoft. We don’t know if the software used in the European data centers has deliberate backdoors, kill switches or the like. We don’t know if the datacenters are requiring specific hardware from US manufacturers that could be compromised. Unless the software used in the data centers is also entirely developed, owned and maintained by the European entities so that these can be held accountable, it does not matter whose address is on the paper.
This is completely different to McDonalds, where the business model revolves around selling food that is sourced locally or could be sourced locally.
The only way to protect from US governmental influence is to provide European alternatives that are developed, owned and maintained by companies here and not dependent on any software subject to US governmental influence.
So because software and hardware is in US control, we can’t trust even the intent of the company. Yea shit, okay that makes sense. (Thank you for a very good and understandable explanation!)
But say if, a EU alternative is developed by Hungary and in use, what’s stopping it from essensially doing their Russian sock puppet thing? 🤔
Is there any alternative that works without open sourcing, or maybe monitoring any data that goes outside of the EU? Because the second alternative is dystopian, I’d much rather prefer the first - but it seems implausible
Things are very different with software. For starters we don’t know which influence the US government currently wields over Microsoft. We don’t know if the software used in the European data centers has deliberate backdoors, kill switches or the like. We don’t know if the datacenters are requiring specific hardware from US manufacturers that could be compromised. Unless the software used in the data centers is also entirely developed, owned and maintained by the European entities so that these can be held accountable, it does not matter whose address is on the paper.
This is completely different to McDonalds, where the business model revolves around selling food that is sourced locally or could be sourced locally.
The only way to protect from US governmental influence is to provide European alternatives that are developed, owned and maintained by companies here and not dependent on any software subject to US governmental influence.
So because software and hardware is in US control, we can’t trust even the intent of the company. Yea shit, okay that makes sense. (Thank you for a very good and understandable explanation!)
But say if, a EU alternative is developed by Hungary and in use, what’s stopping it from essensially doing their Russian sock puppet thing? 🤔
Is there any alternative that works without open sourcing, or maybe monitoring any data that goes outside of the EU? Because the second alternative is dystopian, I’d much rather prefer the first - but it seems implausible
I guess it’s not a black and white thing, just a matter of trust.
Imagine you have a kilo of gold, you wouldn’t just store it anywhere.
For me, Hungary and USA are bad places for my personal data and my gold (if I had any).