>“There’s too many cooks in the kitchen,” said Frank Karlitschek, German entrepreneur and founder of NextCloud, which is a Gaia-X member. “It’s already become clear that it’s difficult to find a consensus between everybody.”
Could be applied to the whole of the EU in general, or any of its problems.
Europe will never have it’s own cloud because it just doesn’t have the skills or expertise. All of it’s expertise has fled to the US.
Does anyone have an ELI5 for what this project is meant to be doing/answering?
My couple of minutes on Google just brought up buzzword bingo type answers.
>The Gaia-X board is composed of executives from European companies including OVHCloud, Airbus, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom. But other board members, notably associations such as Digital Europe, CISPE and Bitkom, represent the interests of influential members like U.S. giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, which allow them to influence the group’s decision-making.
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>“The big players, they do what they do. First, they knock on the door, then they take a step in the door … Very quickly it became clear that these guys were dominant in the technical groups,” said Lechelle, CEO of Scaleway.
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>Insiders added Microsoft in particular had been very active in steering the work of the technical committees.
Sadly it sounds like it failed completely. At this point chaos is not ‘killing’ it, because it is already dead. Shut it down before it becomes a way to hand even more to Microsoft and Amazon.
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>“There’s too many cooks in the kitchen,” said Frank Karlitschek, German entrepreneur and founder of NextCloud, which is a Gaia-X member. “It’s already become clear that it’s difficult to find a consensus between everybody.”
Could be applied to the whole of the EU in general, or any of its problems.
Europe will never have it’s own cloud because it just doesn’t have the skills or expertise. All of it’s expertise has fled to the US.
Does anyone have an ELI5 for what this project is meant to be doing/answering?
My couple of minutes on Google just brought up buzzword bingo type answers.
>The Gaia-X board is composed of executives from European companies including OVHCloud, Airbus, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom. But other board members, notably associations such as Digital Europe, CISPE and Bitkom, represent the interests of influential members like U.S. giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, which allow them to influence the group’s decision-making.
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>“The big players, they do what they do. First, they knock on the door, then they take a step in the door … Very quickly it became clear that these guys were dominant in the technical groups,” said Lechelle, CEO of Scaleway.
>
>Insiders added Microsoft in particular had been very active in steering the work of the technical committees.
Sadly it sounds like it failed completely. At this point chaos is not ‘killing’ it, because it is already dead. Shut it down before it becomes a way to hand even more to Microsoft and Amazon.