Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Re:Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based ... by steinwinde on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:31AM (#49843716)

Isn't it counterproductive for every European country with a bit of extra money to develop its own open source software stack?

Don't the stakeholders perceive this as a problem, too?

Or is it inevitable, given how differently these bureaucracies are structured?

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Re:Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based ... by mastermage on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:56AM (#49843993)

Oh sorry that is what I meant i would like this to be a EU wide ecosystem working together.

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Re:Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based ... by Forgeties79 on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:50AM (#49843924)

I’m hardly an expert, quite the opposite, but I imagine coordinating all those groups across multiple countries that don’t have a unified bureaucratic system would undo any disadvantages of just working on them independently and open sourcing at all. In theory they could all start borrowing from each other eventually.

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Re:Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based ... by selfhoster1312 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:44AM (#49853873)

It's not just a structure problem. The needs are different. And monoculture is always bad, so developing a plurality of solutions is a good idea.

I'm not saying every small administration of a 200-souls village needs to do this, but on the scale of a nation who has a GAFAM budget in the hundreds of millions of euros (probably, haven't made the calculation), it's not crazy to invest a few million on a side project like this to reduce dependency.

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