Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud [LWN.net]

Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud

Posted Dec 4, 2023 13:50 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud by paulj
Parent article: Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud

>This is all to sate the "Mordac Preventor of Information Services" types in corporate tech.

No. Mordac is *hired to implement this stuff*. The policies are set by the corporate lawyers and/or consultants hired by the C-suite.

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Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud

Posted Dec 4, 2023 14:03 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (3 responses)

Yes indeed. The McKinsey's and PWCs are making a tonne of money by having their army of 20-something graduates - with no life experience - coming and "best practicing" these inefficiencies onto corporates.

In principle, those corporates who are able to resist the worst of this stuff, should have a slight competitive advantage. Or they would have, except these same "consultants" are also involved in lobbying governments to enact vague "compliance" regulations. Deliberately vague of course, because then interpreting them in ways that leads to mountains of consultation documents to write for their unfortunate clients (who now have no choice - it's a regulatory requirement now!) leads to plenty of billable hours.

Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud

Posted Dec 7, 2023 13:26 UTC (Thu) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link] (2 responses)

The same McKinsey's and PwC also are often also included in drafting the legislation.

Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud

Posted Dec 7, 2023 13:27 UTC (Thu) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link] (1 responses)

Posted to quickly, by which I mean it's not even lobbying, in many cases they're also working for the government ministries that write the legislation.

Roundcube becomes part of Nextcloud

Posted Dec 11, 2023 13:34 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

That's a good point. These mega-management-consultants are often also inside ministries, writing the policies. The Irish government certainly habitually does so. These huge management consultant companies have a vested interest in increasing the amount of bureaucracy and red-tape ("best practices" as they will call it) that corporates must navigate by law and regulation.

Of course, in every new thicket of regulation, one will surely be able to point to a thorny bramble with some good berries on them for a month or two each year - that we /should/ want to have - and that is used to justify it all.

The net overall effect is we are adding huge swathes of inefficiencies - mandated by /very vague/ laws, to be interpreted by said management consultancy companies, at great cost - onto much of western business. Lots of "make work" (called "bullshit jobs" by one author - the "box ticker" class particularly).