News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice. Parent comment

Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by trelane on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:19AM (#39929458)
The phrase is, "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft." It's descended from the same phrase, applied to IBM, when they were the power.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by croes on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:45AM (#39929721)
But the impact is deeper nowadays.

What was the worst that could happen when you bought IBM back then?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by Liquix on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:46AM (#39930351)
I think the sentiment is less that something catastophic can't happen by depending on M$ - it's more that you personally will never be blamed for their servers going down. Whereas if you advocate for a smaller/more open solution and that blows up in the company's face, it's your ass on the line.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by croes on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:09AM (#39930614)
But that could change after the last couple of mistakes by MS.

Do maybe it's still in the head of the people but it could backfire.

[ Parent | on HN ]