Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
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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
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
if this were a socialist country, libreoffice would’ve been used a lot more than microsoft office. seriously!
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Another European country tried that switch but found that retraining employees was too expensive and inefficient.
Which country?
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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.
That’s nonsense. Just because something is open source, doesn’t mean that support doesn’t exist.
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Sure, but I mean a distro developed/maintained/curated officially by the EU or one of its member governments.
I’m all for it, but I am not sure any more wath the political trend on surveillance.
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That’s nonsense. Just because something is open source, doesn’t mean that support doesn’t exist.
That’s not what he is saying. Quit that strawman bullshit.
It’s not exactly a secret that competence for Microsoft Solutions is far more frequent than competence of various Linux solutions, if someone built that solution at all.
At my work, If a windows user gets a windows related problem, we probably have hundreds of people that can fix it.
If a Linux user get a Linux related problem. If they can’t fix it themselves, then IT probably can’t fix it either. Not because our IT is useless, but because the Linux guys know know Linux better than IT. So we’d have to call in a contractor to help them.
And they are not cheap. Because there’s not a lot of Linux experts right now.
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Schleswig-Holstein’s migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.
And states like bavaria are hard prone on windows because Söder has a small prick and “is not like those northeners”
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SUSE, Manjaro, Alpine Linux, CRUX, and NixOS are all technically European (as are many others).
Mint is also european (based on Ireland), even though it’s based on Ubuntu and Debian, both of which are American (but Debian is FOSS)
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And states like bavaria are hard prone on windows because Söder has a small prick and “is not like those northeners”
I still remember when Bavaria was one of the first to use Linux.
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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
