For anyone wondering: openDesk, the solution they're using, wasn't developed from the ground up. It contains standard open source tools like Nextcloud, Matrix and Collabora.
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I'm glad they finally had an easy to understand example of why depending on a closed source ecosystem from a foreign country is insane for any kind of public authority.
a German-developed software
a [...] software
\sigh
That's like requesting 1 happiness or 11 lovely.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is bothered by this shift away from software being a noun.
If it makes you feel better, this may be a mistranslation from German where saying "eine Software" is appropriate.
The software in question consists of at least 3 softwares. Thus
1 software = 3 software
Microsoft Office: it’s not even good enough for international criminals anymore ™
The ICC is one of those orgs where not having their data sitting on silicon valley servers is a big friggin' deal, and they should have probably thought of that years ago.
I look forward to a Europe fully on its own cloud and software stacks or at least FOSS options.
How about own cloud stack on nextcloud?
I haven't tried NextCloud but it looks more like a hosted application stack like M365 rather than a general purpose cloud like AWS/Azure/gcloud. What would be really cool is a homegrown cloud that emulated AWS/Azure/gcloud API's so that you could easily port existing applications over.
Why stop there? Let's get our own internet too. Euronet or something.
Let's hope that this process will continue even after Trump
Never heard of open desk...
Why not pick the typical LibreOffice?
opendesk is eu driven backed by funding specifically for enterprise and government institutions.
They use collabora online for document editing (you self host this service). Collabora is LibreOffice based.
they seem to do different things. The opendesk website tells me that besides documents they also do identity management, email, cloud storage and videocalls.
Although they didn't pick LibreOffice, the project which I personally use, a move from the entire ICC to choose opensource software is insane. Hopefully, and likely any funding they will do to improve software will go to the opensource community
If the OpenDesk software is open source, will that mean each government body will start using a different flavor of it? Seems like an upkeep nightmare for governments.
Microsoft has and will continue to do Trumps bidding when it comes to the ICC, so this is a very good but also very late decision.
"very late" for you, now; in hundred years it may be considered a timely decision taken early on at the start of the American MAGAification
In my opinion, any Public Administration depending on software without control over the source (paying contractor is another debate) is a bad idea, you don't have to wait for a company to go rogue (for its client) to realize it.
What transparency can you get if you don't know your software ? Trusting publisher without permanent audit is worthless, also, with this amount of dependency, corruption could arise just to keep it.
If in the future they consider it good timing, this should be considered a defeat.
I hadn't heard of openDesk before. Here they are talking at last year's LibreOffice Conference, in case anyone is interested.
Good to see public open source software picking up steam. It's fucking insane that it took corporate platforms enabling fucking genocidal mass murder of civilians for years while actively obstructing international justice and sanctioning the international criminal court—a dystopian vision even Stallman would have struggled to come up with—for it to take place, but at least it's fucking happening.
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