Saving some money short term, losing a whole bunch long term.

Hmm you might be right. And if 2016 has taught us anything: it might work.

What a kamikaze of a defense…

Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.

If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.

And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?

Things are going great over there.