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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
submitted 10 hours ago by [email protected] to c/linux
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

IT professionals only get a say when the C-suite accepts that IT is a necessity, not a burden. This is extremely uncommon.

Working in enterprise IT sucks. I've had jobs where we had to have CFO approval to buy a bag of zipties (the request was denied, BTW)