Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office : hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office (www.computerworld.dk)

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[–] the_q@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Someone got paid...

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[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It was probably a negotiating tactic anyway

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[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Open source would be free... like, what is there to negotiate?

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

There's still costs to implement a free software solution

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[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Big orgs also really don't like it when there's no vendor support for third party applications

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[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago*

trade and defence agreements with the US

Denmark is the Obama of Europe, long on promises and hope but the biggest fucking disappointment.

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[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago

From their perspective, they have to deal with re-training and support and existing workflows. The license cost is only one part of a contract like this.

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