German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
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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 of the Minister-President: Independent, sustainable, secure: Schleswig-Holstein will […]
  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Hopefully some of the money saved from paying Microsoft will be put in the hands of Libreoffice and Linux devs

    • unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      If they don’t back to windows few months later because the lack of compatibility with Microsoft prpriutgdoc format. Yes, I already see this be used as justification. :/

    • KryptonBlur@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I imagine it will, as that’s sort of the point of the sovereign tech fund, it’s meant to fund open source projects so that moves like this can happen.