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erAck@discuss.tchncs.deM to LibreOffice@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 years ago

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 […]
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    Cool. I hope they don’t screw it up again.

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    Is my understanding that there have been a few false starts in Germany with open source in government accurate?

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      There was the particular LiMux one in Munich that was “solved” by Microsoft moving their head quarter to a district of Munich and the then new conservative coalition in town government thanked them by rolling all back and buying MS products instead.

      Someone gave a little overview in that Hacker News topic mentioned.

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    And a meanwhile growing large topic on Hacker News.

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    I hope the don’t like using the scroll wheel on documents.

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    Based move tbh. Hope it stays that way too!

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