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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28006908

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germanyโ€™s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The article is conveniently leaving out the part of the story where Munich decided to revert its Linux migration only after heavy lobbying by Microsoft.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, that was quite some time ago. Disgraceful but a different context to the movement we now have going on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The context of rampant corruption hasn't changed a bit, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Also typical for German politics. Political corruption is practically legal in Germany. If you have enough money, you can buy pretty much any decision.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

FYI, this comment is tagged as "Deutsch"

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Oops, butter fingers. Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I mean, are there any countries where this isn't the case? Maybe in China or North Korea, but not much else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Linus never was able fulfill Munichs use cases.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's what politicians claimed, the people more involved with the project publically contradicted that. Whom to believe? Corrupt serial liars, or people actually working on the project?

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

As a dev for a german company serving cities among their customers i canโ€˜t wait to support Linux!

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IMO there should come an European law that forces computer manufactuers to offer customers the option between Windows or Linux. This is a way to make Linux more mainstream, but still leaving the final decission to the customer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Should this ever be the case, I am sure that Linux would become more popular, simply because the same computer would be cheaper just because of the operating system choice. Windows licenses aren't cheap.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You got the point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Article is a year old

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is it going to be RHEL though?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Made me chuckle!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

In the light of the most recent actions taken by a hostile orange. Having the gov run on Microsoft WAS a bad financial decision, but has become a strategic weakness now!

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

Linux is - legally - a U.S. product, backed by a U.S. Foundation, led by a U.S. citizen. Just saying.