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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by dataflow on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:40PM (#39936688)
> I hope that they understand it shouldn't be about cost, it should be about being sovereign

Makes sense in principle, but practically speaking Germany would seem to have higher priority threats to address than software from the United States?

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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by paulryanrogers on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:11PM (#39936974)
Countries are big. They can do more than one thing at a time.
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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by leipert on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:20PM (#39937040)
Mhm. Spending less on licenses would free up money for other things.
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Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice by tristan957 on Friday April 05, 2024 @10:27AM (#39942770)
The Document Foundation is a German organization.
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