German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
blog.documentfoundation.orgThe north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software, including LibreOffice, in its administration and schools. In doing so, the state wants to reduce its dependence on proprietary software, and eventually end it altogether. By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used […]
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I hope they don’t try to roll their own distribution like LiMux did.
Yeah, they should just buy a supported distribution. I bet they can get a pretty good deal on UCS or SuSE.
Some years ago a lot of Spanish administrations and companies have done the same, saving a lot of money as the main reason.
Every IT project of German authorities failed in the last two decades. So this is a bad news because the project will fail too and they will say it was because Open Source does not work.
Jan Philipp Albrecht notes of the Munich failure: “The main problem there was that the employees weren’t taken along enough. We do better. We are planning long transition phases with parallel use, and we’re introducing open source step-by-step when the departments are ready. With this, we also create the reason for further introduction, because people can see that it works.”
https://fossforce.com/2021/11/a-german-state-is-saying-goodbye-windows-hello-linux/
It will depend on people wanting to use it, but, imo, governments and government agencies ought to be using, and suggesting that others use, open technologies.
i infuriates me how microsoft is stealing tax money and has held a global monopoly for decades. especially when there are free alternatives. it isn’t even legal for a foreign private company to hold monopoly and extract tax wealth. most other software they use follow these rules, so why not windows/office?
It infuriates me too.
I really don’t understand how it’s acceptable for shops to sell devices pre-loaded with Micro$oft products, without letting the consumer know that there’s the license fee included in the purchase. But, as you say, this practice has gone on for decades.