Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops.

[stepphy202@mastodon.social]

Hi, how are you doing today?.

[susanpotter@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota finally one government in Europe is getting serious about the Big Tech threat. More please.

[jcktmn@outerheaven.club]

@starluna @Tutanota my guess would probably be jitsi

[wolfgang@gotosocial.whammes.dynv6.net]

@geolr @Tutanota

It works in Schleswig-Holstein in the north of Germany.

[wolfgang@gotosocial.whammes.dynv6.net]

@ovoao @PapaFatHead @Tutanota

You can find "The Suite" on Github: https://github.com/suitenumerique

[josejfernandez@todon.eu]

@Tutanota I wish the switch lasts, as I don't think it'd be the first time a move away from Windows happens in certain public administration, to later be reverted and Windows adopted again.

[wolfgang@gotosocial.whammes.dynv6.net]

@elduvelle @wyliecoyoteuk

Every Minister in the french government has to work on a migration plan. This plans must be ready until the end of 2026. (https://winfuture.de/news,158029.html)

And they work on "La Suite numérique". Open source, in collaboration with the Netherlands and Germany. (https://github.com/suitenumerique)

[axx@mstdn.fr]

@starluna @Tutanota it's called Visio
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/visio

[mikelius@mstdn.games]

@Tutanota
Just to say it, I think we should be pushing to leave all big tech in general, not just U.S. big tech, as it's labeled all the time. The threat of greed and data is a global problem.

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

@xs4me2 Agreed!

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

@mikelius That would be amazing!

[johan_e_m@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota wow!

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@jcktmn @Tutanota We have tried jitsi. The challenge with it is that it doesn't have an interpretation function, which is critical to the work that we do here.

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@wolfgang @wyliecoyoteuk

So, to try and stay on topic: @Tutanota claims that the entire French government is "ditching Windows for Linux". This is the part I'm saying is not true.

You mention that

"Every Minister in the french government has to work on a migration plan. This plans must be ready until the end of 2026. (https://winfuture.de/news,158029.html)"

-> this doesn't mean that every ministry is planning to ditch Windows, since there is not even a plan yet. It doesn't even say that the plan is about ditching Windows specifically. Or did I miss something?

"And they work on "La Suite numérique". Open source, in collaboration with the Netherlands and Germany. (https://github.com/suitenumerique)"

Is that about Linux replacing windows? No - it's about an equivalent to Microsoft office. What do you mean by "they work on " this - is this again the entire government? or is it restricted to the DINUM department?

it would be great if the entire gov. was in the process of replacing Win with Lin. as far as I can see this is not the case at least for now, and it may never happen.

[stoev@social.stoev.dev]

@Tutanota Everybody should follow.

[colin_cz@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Finally, even governments are starting to realize that Windows is just spyware disguised as an operating system

[shredd_tone@equestria.social]

@Tutanota
FUCK YESSS FRANCE!!

[stman@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Cool down. Free software is just more sovereignty, not full digital sovereignty.

For full digital sovreignty, you need more things, including end-users verifiable free integrated circuits.

[mmu_man@m.g3l.org]

@Tutanota well yes and no, there are still openbar contracts with Microsoft all around, and it's not like they'll switch everything tonight. But I guess on step at a time…