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- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28006908
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.
The article is conveniently leaving out the part of the story where Munich decided to revert its Linux migration only after heavy lobbying by Microsoft.
To be fair, that was quite some time ago. Disgraceful but a different context to the movement we now have going on.
The context of rampant corruption hasn’t changed a bit, though.
@trollercoaster @Blaze
This is one of the most regrettable tales in history. :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRh2G29NNE
Also typical for German politics. Political corruption is practically legal in Germany. If you have enough money, you can buy pretty much any decision.
FYI, this comment is tagged as “Deutsch”
Oops, butter fingers. Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.
I mean, are there any countries where this isn’t the case? Maybe in China or North Korea, but not much else.
Linus never was able fulfill Munichs use cases.
That’s what politicians claimed, the people more involved with the project publically contradicted that. Whom to believe? Corrupt serial liars, or people actually working on the project?