German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage...
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MS will erect another campus and things will go back to "normal". Hopefully this will last at this time...
Good documentary about MS hold over German government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg
it'd be funny if municipalities all over the eu started switching to Linux because they want a Microsoft campus
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That's only half the story if you look into it. I think they also had issues with the transition.
I think they also had issues with the transition.
They were blown out of proportion. Every single problem was magnified as if Windows had none at all. IIRC the sysadmins actually said they had less support tickets to deal with than before.
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