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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There were interoperability issues on the federal level, but I'm with you, lobbying must have played a major role in reverting the migration.

At the time, there were also press releases mentioning increasingly slow support response times and missing features, but since (at least according to my knowledge) no stats on that have ever been published, it's hard to tell how much of those were opinion pieces (with the interviews potentially being non-representative).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The always are inter operability issues on a federal level in Germany, because of the strong level of individuality of each state. That has little to do with Windows vs Linux.

Any project that has to aggregate data on a federal level is technically challenging and accompanied by a ton of political sensitiveness. The states tend to see any attempt at standardization as an attack on their state freedoms.