German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Cool. I hope they don't screw it up again.

xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Microsoft is dispatching their special sales team as we speak.They are equipped with the latest gear and a special budget for a list of important, special people.

Sakychu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

The Northern most State in Germany switched to Unix based OS just 5 years ago. Let's hope that they don't switch back, it was rather expensive

whereisk@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Is my understanding that there have been a few false starts in Germany with open source in government accurate?

erAck@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 2y

There was the particular LiMux one in Munich that was "solved" by Microsoft moving their head quarter to a district of Munich and the then new conservative coalition in town government thanked them by rolling all back and buying MS products instead.

Someone gave a little overview in that Hacker News topic mentioned.

erAck@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y

And a meanwhile growing large topic on Hacker News.

Oka@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

I hope the don't like using the scroll wheel on documents.

kirbowo808@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

Based move tbh. Hope it stays that way too!