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.
post
I look forward to a Europe fully on its own cloud and software stacks or at least FOSS options.
replies:
Let's hope that this process will continue even after Trump
replies:
Has anyone used OpenDesk? Looks like they have a community edition
11 comments in c/world@lemmy.world view that post
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.
replies:
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.
replies:
a German-developed software
a [...] software
\sigh
That's like requesting 1 happiness or 11 lovely.
replies:
Microsoft Office: it’s not even good enough for international criminals anymore ™
8 comments in c/technology@lemmy.ml view that post
Never heard of open desk...
Why not pick the typical LibreOffice?
replies:
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.
replies:
3 comments in c/opensource@lemmy.ml view that post
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.
replies:
2 comments in c/europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com view that post
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.
replies:
1 comment in c/opensource@programming.dev view that post
Hopefully they will pay for it and train their staff to use it. Otherwise they are just setting themselves up for failure and some "Christian Democrat" to accept a Microsoft bribe and claim there are "too many problems".
P. S Thank you Trump for sanctioning the head of the ICC. Please sanction more people with the power to make pro opensource decisions 😍
all 10 comments