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.

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        1 month ago

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

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          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.

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            1 month 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?