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- buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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- buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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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Ah, that’s why the penguin island got tariffs, but not Russian. Makes sense.
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.
The article is a year old, fyi.
Hope more places within EU do this however!
FYI, the Linux trademark, the Linux Foundation and Linus Torvalds are U.S.-based.
And? The licencing is completely open and not chained to a single country nor single corporation.
Still, it’s probably off-topic in the “buy from EU” community. No EU products are involved here.
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.
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?
