Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
by a2800276 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:31AM
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It's an outlier in Germany as well. The municipal government in Munich tried to migrate to OSS around ~2004, but had to roll back after a couple of years. Most municipalities and government agencies would _like_ to utilize more OSS, but don't really have any concrete idea of how to proceed.
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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
by f1refly on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:18AM
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This was probably completely, utterly unrelated to the migration of the german Microsoft HQ to Munich at that time and there was no corruption involved at all.
Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
by isodev on Thursday April 04, 2024 @10:48AM
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Indeed. Microsoft is extremely aggressive in such situations. I used to contract for this big corp here in Belgium that was on track to replace office and windows with Linux and LibreOffice. A few months later, they got a new VP of something, previously working for MS… fast forward to the next all hands meeting announcing the return to Teams and O365.