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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  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Doesn't some German municipality do this every couple of years? Switch to linux until MS bribes them and they go back to Windows.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      I saw someone talking about how it failed in Munich, so maybe...

      • psychoplantkiller [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Microsoft pushed for standardized use of their OOXML which was needlessly complicated and purposefully full of bugs when run on LibreOffice so instead of telling the world to stop adopting Microsoft's shitty doc formats, Munich took the much easier option and followed the herd.

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]M
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    8 months ago

    Not Germany, just this one federal state. But any successful transition to libre software is always welcome. Europe has a very active free software community (more than the US in some aspects) so a lot of initiatives like these happen more often.

  • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    Kerala, a state in India, uses a flavor of Ubuntu for computer education in high school. Got introduced to Linux, Firefox, Libreoffice, Supertuxkart, GIMP and much more because of that.