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Asset data: exit becomes free, the model stays captive

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  • 1. Cahiers de technopolitique

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From 12 January 2027, switching cloud provider will no longer incur any switching charges. In France, data transfer has already been free of charge since a ministerial order of 17 November 2025. What remains to be seen is what you take with you. Contracts promise a "reasonable and common format", that is to say, tables. What does not leave is the model: the functional hierarchy, the classifications, the rules. And the regulation that organises the exit excludes it in its very definition.

English version, translated by the author, of Cahiers de technopolitique no. 3 (French original: 10.5281/zenodo.23207207). Quotations from English-language sources are given in their original wording. Full text in open access: https://technopolitique.eu/cahiers/n3/en/.

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English version of Cahiers de technopolitique no. 3. The French original (10.5281/zenodo.22836960) is the reference text. Version 1.1 of 7 October 2026: every quotation, figure and attribution checked against its primary source; dates, figures, attributions and references corrected, cuts in quotations marked [...], and passages that the sources contradicted rectified. The previous version remains available, but this one is authoritative.

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