> according to a NASA person I spoke to last year, any government agency has to have a contract with an entity in order to use a platform. He said they can’t figure out who at “Mastodon” to would give them a contract and assume liability.
smells like bullshit, who signed their contract for www.nasa.gov
smells like bullshit, who signed their contract for www.nasa.gov
@sun No, this is a thing, sadly. Many moons ago I tried to get Notepad++ approved for NIPR, but since the gov wants someone they can sue if something breaks, it never went anywhere.
@RegalBeagle it's just interestingly selective because they don't have somebody on the line for Apache web server, they just pay a sysadmin.
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@sun For networked services, all that goes through contractors. They lease rack space in a datacenter or host in govCloud and get paid based on meeting SLAs. Almost always easier going that route than creating a program that runs on the end user's machine. DoD had a massive cloud boner back when I was in.
