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Because Microsoft blocked chief prosecutor Karim Khan account, the ICC is moving away from Microsoft to Open Desk.

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 59 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s sort of bothers me that government business will be handled in the cloud of some random company. Sure, a lot of these things are open source but… Do we get to compare checksums?

[–] PatrickYaa@feddit.org 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not a random company. OpenDesk is produced (maintained? Developed? Packaged?) by ZenDiS. ZenDiS is a company that belongs 100% to the german government. It's not a ministry, but a company. Kind of like the german railways (DB).

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well that changes things.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

perfect! as we see government work harder and closer with companies to kill innocent people for profit, target activist, and any moment can switch from democracy to dictatorship, we can have some comfort on them handling systems of the "ICC"

[–] PatrickYaa@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's still an open source project. I don't know if an independant company would be better, but imo it's a great first step to see that the german government is investing in digital sovereignty. That may not make the ICC sovereign, but on the other hand, would it make sense for every country to have their own stack?

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Is this separate from the Suite Numerique project or is it the german branded version? I'm worried that we (european governments) are not leveraging existing projects enough. In a way it's good to have options, but also imagine if we all worked towards a very polished real alternative to the Google ecosystem.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

They'd be doing an enterprise install but here's the gitlab readme for the open desk community edition and with links for a Kubernetes installation:

https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk/

This is fantastic! First time I hear about this project!

[–] oce@jlai.lu 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thelivefive@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

Especially one that is currently collaborating to help carry out a genocide.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

a German-developed software

a [...] software

\sigh

That's like requesting 1 happiness or 11 lovely.

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is bothered by this shift away from software being a noun.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it makes you feel better, this may be a mistranslation from German where saying "eine Software" is appropriate.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

The software in question consists of at least 3 softwares. Thus
1 software = 3 software

[–] mayorchid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Microsoft Office: it’s not even good enough for international criminals anymore ™