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title: "Dependency you choose, not dependency you inherit."
description: "Why we build software that is useful, reversible and founded on dependencies you choose rather than inherit."
url: "https://francaisedulogiciel.fr/en/principles"
language: "en-GB"
---

# Dependency you choose, not dependency you inherit.

What we think, and what it changes in practice on our projects.

> For twenty years, going with an American supplier was the sensible call: better, cheaper, more integrated. That is no longer true everywhere, while the legal risk has only grown.

We do not think American tools are bad. Most of them are excellent, and we used them for years. The problem is not their quality, it is the position you are in once you depend on them. A change of price, of terms or of policy, and you have no recourse.

A company that controls neither its code, nor its data, nor its ability to recover the accounts its software runs on does not really own its tools. It rents them, on terms it never negotiated.

Our job is to make that dependency something you choose rather than something you inherit: open standards, documented exports, account control that can be signed over, and a choice of suppliers we can justify. We prefer a European option where it does the job, without turning that into a promise detached from your situation.

That is what we mean by digital sovereignty: being able to choose your dependencies, and to leave them. It is not a hosting package. It is a design constraint on everything we write, and the direction we are headed in.

## What that changes, in practice

### Useful first

We would rather build a simple tool your team uses than a thorough one they avoid. Even if that means talking you out of features along the way.

### European by preference

Where the service is genuinely comparable, we choose European suppliers. We explain the choice, and we fit it to your situation.

### Reversible

You have to be able to walk away. The code, the data and the documentation are yours, and we sign over the technical accounts whenever you ask.

## See also

- [This page in Français](https://francaisedulogiciel.fr/convictions)
- [Home](https://francaisedulogiciel.fr/en)
- [Every page](https://francaisedulogiciel.fr/sitemap.xml)