I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
@BioGeoBryce Did this "IT chief" have any facts at all? Any data?
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
@BioGeoBryce I would love to see their data privacy statement
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
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@BioGeoBryce Did this "IT chief" have any facts at all? Any data?
@humanhorseshoes
Not really... but to be fair, it was mostly about perceived risks and sensitivities, rather than concrete vulnerabilities. -
@proscience Yes, the discussion was instigated when IT read a question i added to a list preparing for the next all-hands meeting
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
"Or are onept to do so"?!?!?
What, all of a sudden university employees can't think?
Just saw that you need to be in the top 4% to be considered for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie post doc grants, so I have some trouble believing that IT chief
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
@BioGeoBryce An IT manager is the last to be useful in the choice for Digital Autonomy/Sovereignity. Such has to come from a CIO or the board of directors. Even they will wait until staying with Microsoft is not an option anymore.
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I had a long discussion on #digitalsovereignty with our IT chief today after I complained openly about being forced to use Microsoft suite
I was informed that:
1) there is no #OpenSource alternative appropriate for a medium sized research institute like ours2) my data privacy concerns were an ungrounded conspiracy theory
3) employees either don't want to use open alternatives to #USTech or are too inept to do so
4) open alternatives at the enterprise scale cost money and are therefore not competitive with Microsoft
5) partners in the #HorizonEU that I (will) coordinate need to offer their own solutions if they don't want to use #MSTeams
Happy #DIday y'all
@BioGeoBryce I found a tiny loophole that works for me on a very small scale. I was allowed to have the Windows Subsystem for Linux. On there, I can have my small little soverign realm. It's not great by any measure, but enough to keep my blood pressure in the normal range. I fear the day they take that from me.
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