cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28006908

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germanyโ€™s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

all 22 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] 57 points 2 years ago (12 children)

The article is conveniently leaving out the part of the story where Munich decided to revert its Linux migration only after heavy lobbying by Microsoft.

  • source
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • [โ€“] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be fair, that was quite some time ago. Disgraceful but a different context to the movement we now have going on.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Also typical for German politics. Political corruption is practically legal in Germany. If you have enough money, you can buy pretty much any decision.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Linus never was able fulfill Munichs use cases.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [โ€“] 22 points 2 years ago

    As a dev for a german company serving cities among their customers i canโ€˜t wait to support Linux!

  • source
  • [โ€“] 22 points 2 years ago

    Article is a year old

  • source
  • [โ€“] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    IMO there should come an European law that forces computer manufactuers to offer customers the option between Windows or Linux. This is a way to make Linux more mainstream, but still leaving the final decission to the customer.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is it going to be RHEL though?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    In the light of the most recent actions taken by a hostile orange. Having the gov run on Microsoft WAS a bad financial decision, but has become a strategic weakness now!

  • source
  • [โ€“] -3 points 2 years ago

    Linux is - legally - a U.S. product, backed by a U.S. Foundation, led by a U.S. citizen. Just saying.

  • source