Ban so they have justification for confiscation. It’s not a real ‘ban’. Like how russian missiles ‘aren’t’ made with western components but actually are.
That’s very important context that I wasn’t aware of. Makes the other comment about it being used as an avenue to search/seize that hardware much more believable.
This is especially interesting in the wake of the Chinese Government’s new ban on AMD and Intel chips in government computers.
https://lemmy.kde.social/comment/3150960
Well, you have to dogfood it sometime…
Ban so they have justification for confiscation. It’s not a real ‘ban’. Like how russian missiles ‘aren’t’ made with western components but actually are.
They just banned them and Nvidia for medium sized businesses, too.
That’s very important context that I wasn’t aware of. Makes the other comment about it being used as an avenue to search/seize that hardware much more believable.
Well the requirements for government IT stack is really more about security and reliability than performance.