Subj : Re: German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux
To   : niter3
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Apr 05 2024 01:02 pm

On 05 Apr 2024, niter3 said the following...

 Wa> German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux & LibreOffice

 ni> Interesting, without looking at those links, why are they getting off
 ni> this platform?

The TL;DR of the article is that they're focusing on digital sovereignty.

"With open source software, administrations have much more choice where to get the software and support, can fund local developers to make improvements & local governments can maintain full control of the software, study its source code, make changes they require and deploy it entirely on their own infrastructure."

"This follows on from the finding by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 breaches data protection law."


Jay

.... I will stop at nothing to avoid using negative numbers

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