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1. Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:09:53 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

   • cjnielsen

   @airshipper you'll notice how all AWS 'deals' involve them 'generously' providing 'training'. What you don't see is that the training only for AWS' proprietary APIs & processes, and it's largely non-transferrable. It's designed to create consutants who *only* know how to provision AWS services, thereby effectively locking them (and their customers) into the AWS monoculture. MSFT is desperately trying to copy that approach with Azure. @cjnielsen

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:09:50 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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     • cjnielsen

     @airshipper in effect, the NZ Gov't is giving AWS a PR win while probably offering tax breaks so AWS can dominate the domestic cloud market - it's as if the NZ Gov't is importing digital possums not realising it'll kill our indigenous digital bird life. Our gov't is really really crap at anything related to tech strategy. Their credulous love for foreign corporations smacks heavily of either hopeless naivete/incompetence or corruption. @cjnielsen

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:15:07 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     • cjnielsen

     @lightweight @airshipper @cjnielsen My mind goes back to the pointless busywork of their "Action Plan for the Digital Strategy of Aotearoa" they mailed me after completely missing my recommendations.

     The iwi on the otherhand seem very appreciative of data sovereignty when I offer it via Catalyst...

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:20:18 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     • cjnielsen

     @lightweight @airshipper @cjnielsen My mind also jumps to our government's strategy of bribing Hollywood to make movies here (and undermine our own labour laws for them), then fail to grow our own industry as other countries bribe them more heavily.

     It does not feel like a win to brag about making the effects for, say, X-Men First Class's climax... Compared to bragging about LotR being filmed here...