Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
by CRConrad on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:51AM
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> It means that they aren't at the whims of a community who decides to abandon projects willy-nilly or replace them with brand new implementations at the drop of a hat.
Yeah, because only the Open Source community ever does that. Corporations never do... /s
(The "Google Graveyard" site is famous, but wasn't there one for Microsoft too? I want my Microsoft Bob to be maintained, dammit!)
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> The fact that people continue to sign with Azure, Microsoft, Office, etc makes it self-evident.
...that they're idiots. That's what you meant, right?
Gotta love how internet commentators feel like picking a statement apart in isolation somehow validates their point.
Yes, they offer SLAs and have full control of their software and its release cycle. So can offer guarantees and stand by them.
> That puzzles me. How can you have more control over proprietary software than over open source?
"They" is Microsoft.
> If you mean MS have full control, how does that benefit their customers?
It means they don't have to wait for Linux (or a plethora of other open source softwares) for upstreaming or need to fork / manage an independent branch. It means that they aren't at the whims of a community who decides to abandon projects willy-nilly or replace them with brand new implementations at the drop of a hat. Or commercial entities built on top of those projects that can only offer surface level guarantees.
No one here is saying Windows (or proprietary software) is intrinsically better. What they're saying is that what Microsoft offers to certain large-scale/enterprise entities is clearly better.
If you disagree, have at it. I don't care. The fact that people continue to sign with Azure, Microsoft, Office, etc makes it self-evident.