Just a friendly reminder that Politico is owned by the same guy who recently gave an award to Peter Thiel.

To summarize: an unnamed official, let’s call him “Brad”, got to participate in a trial for a new sovereign office tool. According to Brad, the new tool was “absolute s—t” and he still prefers working with good ‘ol Teams (cuz ‘reasons’).

Thanks, Brad. And thanks Politico for this entertaining, yet remarkably useless bit of trivia.

If the officials do not see the added value in having sovereign software and infrastructure, I have to seriously doubt their qualification. Sure, Element isn’t perfect but no concrete mention of what isn’t working is made. That’s not very constructive. Software isn’t static. You can change it.