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German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And a meanwhile growing large topic on Hacker News.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Based move tbh. Hope it stays that way too!