An amendment to the bill for a digital Republic, adopted on Wednesday, could lead to the creation of a “sovereign OS” object of sarcasm.
Windows, Mac OS, Linux and why not one day “France OS”? In the National Assembly on Wednesday, MEPs adopted a surprising provision that could lead to the creation of a national operating system for citizens and businesses.
This idea took seed by surprise last week in the heart of the debate on the bill for a digital republic. The socialist deputy Delphine Batho has passed in the Committee on Laws an amendment by which MEPs call on the government to give him in the next three months “a report on the possibility of creating a Commissioner for the Digital sovereignty attached to the Prime Ministry” . Among the works vested in this new institution is possible in words “establishment of a sovereign Operating System”.
Delphine Batho, the development of a free operating system -French allow France to defend its digital sovereignty. “Cyberspace is dominated by oligopolies subject to foreign law, to a foreign sovereignty,” said the Deux-Sèvres MP in the Assembly, joining a cohort of charges against the “giants of the Web.” The revelations about the spying mass led by the United States as well as the discoveries of backdoors in network equipment, showed how software and hardware could be permeable to the interests of states. The Socialist MEP takes the ideas of Pierre Bellanger, founder of Skyrock radio, quoted in the amendment. They had already been brought at the time by Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Relief productive.
The debates in the National Assembly about the “sovereign OS” were greeted by a flood of mockery and sarcasm . France’s Minitel, Calculation Plan, sovereign and cloud Quaero search engine pricks of technological independence again, are we reminded here or there. The project of “sovereign OS” has been compared to the national operating system developed in North Korea, or a similar development project in Russia. A parody accountOSSouverain, imagining functions and bugs which could suffer this property French software was created on Twitter. “The idea of a Sovereign OS is ridiculous and only reveals the incompetence of its initiators,” commented Gilles Babinet, digital Ambassador of France in Brussels.
Secretary of State responsible Numeric, Axelle Lemaire, has tempered the ardor of Deputies. “I do not believe in the possibility of a sovereign operating system, which would not be operating,” she has said during the debate. You have to have good knowledge of the IT market summary to think that France will be able to design and Enchir an operating system for PC, tablet or smartphone and then convince companies and individuals to adopt it. Axelle Lemaire, however, left open the broader debate on the digital desired sovereignty by Delphine Batho. “Who says sovereignty Digital also said cyber, computer security, security of vital carriers, personal data protection and sovereignty over them, digital citizenship, etc. – the list of topics covered is potentially long” explained the Secretary of State. Which still leaves the door open to this “sovereign OS”.
The proposal to develop a specialized operating system, to equip French infrastructure “of vital importance” could cover some interest, if it seeks to protect the interests of France and remains confined to specialized areas. As highlighted in the website TorrentFreak, a project dedicated to OS sovereign governments already exists. Worn by the National Agency of computer security, based on a Linux kernel and called CLIP, it’s supposed to be more resistant against computer attacks, one of the concerns of the members who voted for the amendment of Delphine Batho. It will be for the future Commissariat for digital sovereignty to decide his fate.
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