Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60886715

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.

  • VisionScout@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is the 3rd time, that i remember, that some german state moved to linux. It always ends up with moving back to windows, because:

    • Corruption/money
    • The users will complain until death about linux, because now the workflow is different, and they don’t like it.
  • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    FYI, the Linux trademark, the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds are U.S.-based.

    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      And? The licencing is completely open and not chained to a single country nor single corporation.

      • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Still, it’s probably off-topic in the “buy from EU” community. No EU products are involved here.

          • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Honestly, the EU seems to be not the best place to write operating systems.

            The most actively developed version of Plan 9, 9front, is from Germany, but that’s not what most people want to use, I guess. Best I can do is non-American (OpenBSD). I’m open for ideas myself though!

        • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          What about OpenSUSE, Ubuntu etc? Both European based firms. Calling the linux kernel and coreutils American is a pretty big stretch considering their licencing and global contributor network.

          • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
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            2 months ago

            What about OpenSUSE, Ubuntu etc? Both European based firms.

            Canonical (based in London) is not really “from the EU” anymore. ;-) No, I know what you mean…

            However: Yes, those are European Linux distributors. They distribute an U.S. operating system kernel together with an U.S. userland (GNU), an U.S. init system (systemd), several U.S. desktops (most commonly, Gnome, although KDE is German, at least)…

            If you get your Windows installation from an European distributor, is it a European product?

            considering their (…) contributor network.

            Microsoft has employees in Europe. Does that count? If it doesn’t, why does it count for Linux?