1w ago

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

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

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’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.

20 comments

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.
- To be fair, that was quite some time ago. Disgraceful but a different context to the movement we now have going on.
  
  The context of rampant corruption hasn't changed a bit, though.
- @trollercoaster @Blaze
  This is one of the most regrettable tales in history. :(
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRh2G29NNE
  
  Also typical for German politics. Political corruption is practically legal in Germany. If you have enough money, you can buy pretty much any decision.
- Linus never was able fulfill Munichs use cases.
  
  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?

As a dev for a german company serving cities among their customers i can‘t wait to support Linux!

Article is a year old

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.
- 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.
  
  You got the point.

Is it going to be RHEL though?
- Made me chuckle!

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!

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

20 comments