NGL it's frustrating living in a moment where <some> EU leaders are finally getting that tech dependence on a foreign power is a fundamental strategic error
but default to subsidising a new set of locked in but 🇪🇺 flagged tech oligarchs.
Competition, interop and tech diversity are existential.
Maria Farrell
See this is where (truly) open technical standards - both process and product - are needed
the "cloud industry" of basically 3-4 companies decamped to its own private members' protocol consortium - WHICH IS CLEARLY A CARTEL HELLO REGULATORS?! - leaving the rest of us not just locked in but unsafe.
Maria Farrell
NATO’s Digital Back End Could Fall Apart Without Change
foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/09/n...
Shared standards on cloud services are urgently needed.