Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
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I’m always excited by these kinds of headlines! I hope they stick with open source and don’t switch back.
I perceive that the ground is prepared well enough for many of those to just stay. And contribute a bit.
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
Many more governed could and should inspire!
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
Fantastic news, the more of these we have the easier it becomes
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The best thing about this is that eventually these organizations are going to want features and fixes that don’t exist yet in the open source software they’re using, at which point they’ll have to invest in development. If this becomes a trend I think it will mean more stability and more functionality in open software in general.
Not just that, it’s also beneficial to the organization because that can just… implement it themselves, and then do a pull request, instead of being reliant upon a corporation to care about your desires. Literally a win-win. I hope state actors come to realize that sooner rather than later, it only makes sense
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Not just that, it’s also beneficial to the organization because that can just… implement it themselves, and then do a pull request, instead of being reliant upon a corporation to care about your desires. Literally a win-win. I hope state actors come to realize that sooner rather than later, it only makes sense
I look forward to EU Linux.
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I look forward to EU Linux.
Hungary has vetoed that USB stick.
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I look forward to EU Linux.
SUSE, Manjaro, Alpine Linux, CRUX, and NixOS are all technically European (as are many others).
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SUSE, Manjaro, Alpine Linux, CRUX, and NixOS are all technically European (as are many others).
Guix, btw.
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
Bravo Deutschland!!!
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
I saw you can run old versions of Microsoft office via wine for free, is that technically legal such that they can do that?
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
Great, but they should donate some of the saved money to open source projects they are using to make sure they stay updated.
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I saw you can run old versions of Microsoft office via wine for free, is that technically legal such that they can do that?
Depends on the license and version. I do know some old office versions are “forever” use since it was before madness became standard practice. Now how useful old office versions would be? No idea, however Libreoffice is up to date, useful and open.
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Depends on the license and version. I do know some old office versions are “forever” use since it was before madness became standard practice. Now how useful old office versions would be? No idea, however Libreoffice is up to date, useful and open.
It’s not one that you previously bought, it just appears as an option in the software manager.
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
Linux ecosystem is very solid, I don’t get why governments would prefer proprietary code, specially after all NSA debacle.
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
While the biggest state in Germany decided to make a deal with Microsoft for an estimate of 1000 Million Euros:
(Article is in German)
https://www.heise.de/news/Vertrag-soll-bis-Jahresende-stehen-Bayern-will-in-die-Microsoft-Cloud-11066618.html -
SUSE, Manjaro, Alpine Linux, CRUX, and NixOS are all technically European (as are many others).
Sure, but I mean a distro developed/maintained/curated officially by the EU or one of its member governments.
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Linux ecosystem is very solid, I don’t get why governments would prefer proprietary code, specially after all NSA debacle.
Because when something goes wrong they can know nothing, call someone and say ‘fix it now’ and they would. That support line is gone. Ideally they should have a few of these people on staff. Well see.
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Because when something goes wrong they can know nothing, call someone and say ‘fix it now’ and they would. That support line is gone. Ideally they should have a few of these people on staff. Well see.
Another European country tried that switch but found that retraining employees was too expensive and inefficient.
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Sure, but I mean a distro developed/maintained/curated officially by the EU or one of its member governments.
Hard pass. I’m not interested in any software curated by a western government.
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Hard pass. I’m not interested in any software curated by a western government.
Or eastern for that matters
