the Ontario Court of Justice, presided over by Judge Heather Perkins-McVey, ruled that the French parent company must hand over the data to the Canadian authorities. Her reasoning is based on a broad interpretation of “virtual presence”: since OVH operates globally and offers services in Canada, the company is subject to Canadian jurisdiction, regardless of where the physical servers are located.
Although the idea is nice, both are needed.
It’s important to have open-source alternatives, but you’re not going to serve websites at the Amazon or Youtube scale by self-hosting OSS. Hyperscaler and their datacentres are also needed.