> 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
@RegalBeagle it's just interestingly selective because they don't have somebody on the line for Apache web server, they just pay a sysadmin.
@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.
"it's bullshit that I can't sue my text editor"
@sj_zero @RegalBeagle I am sure too that the government has never sued microsoft for outages, they probably just use outages to negotiate for cheaper licensing
They can't even sue Microsoft to pay all their taxes.
