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Last week, Anne Le Hénanff, Deputy Minister in charge of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, announced a decree issued under Article 27 of the SREN law.
Behind a subject that could be summed up too quickly as “the cloud,” the message is actually deeper. It concerns reversibility, portability, and above all freedom of choice.
In concrete terms:
– the end of exit fees when changing a provider,
– the effective right to retrieve one’s data,
– the declared intention to limit vendor lock‑in.
In other words, we are not only talking about infrastructures but about the ability, both for public and private organisations, to switch without penalty, without dependency, without contractual traps.
That’s where the issue hits us directly. At LINAGORA we work precisely at the point where everything is decided when one wants to exit: the applications, collaborative building blocks, open formats, interoperability, and the support of migration road‑maps.
Leaving a locked environment is not just about moving data.
You need credible, operational, maintainable alternatives. You must be able to rebuild an information system without recreating a new dependency elsewhere, and that is exactly what open‑source delivers when it is designed for real‑world use, at scale, and over the long term.
This announcement therefore aligns with a stance we have defended for a long time:
The right to choose truly exists only if the right to change is technically possible.
Eliminating exit fees is a first step. The next, more demanding step, is to ask the real question: to exit, yes… but towards what?
That is where the future of an open, sovereign, and responsible digital ecosystem is decided.
The debate is open. How do you see reversibility becoming truly effective?
