• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Except the tech companies are among the politicians’ biggest “donors”.

    Public cloud computing companies that want to host government IT workloads still have to be Fedramp compliant. Doesn’t matter how much their donors pay, if they aren’t Fedramp compliant they can’t bid for the work.

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      4 hours ago

      I dunno what “Fedramp compliant” means? Presumably Apple and Google aren’t bidding for these contracts, which are the ones with the power to change the industry.

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        2 hours ago

        I dunno what “Fedramp compliant” means?

        Its the whole point of this point in this thread. A set of standards the company has to meet to be able to do government work.

        Presumably Apple and Google aren’t bidding for these contracts, which are the ones with the power to change the industry.

        Google is, so is Microsoft as is Amazon which is also the point of this post. They had to meet the security and interoperability standards to get the government work. No amount of donor money allows a company to bypass Fedramp compliance for this work.

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          20 minutes ago

          Its the whole point of this point in this thread.

          Weird that the article never even mentions it’s own subject…

          Or that its about a problem you claim doesn’t exist…

          No amount of donor money allows a company to bypass Fedramp compliance for this work.

          Oh, honey…

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah but donations can help make procurement tenders slightly in favour of donors. Or get inside scoop so they have time to be ready.