Post #48360
2025-12-10 09:00 UTC
Replies (15)
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 09:20
This is great, But using Microsoft Windows should be illegal for public services in EU. We can no longer allow ourselves to depend on American IT infrastructure.
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@palordrolap@fedia.io 2025-12-10 10:11
In before Microsoft break out the FUD tactics and a year or two of cheap licenses.
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@varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2025-12-10 11:18
I really hope GNU/Linux can run on old Fax machines and the printing out emails workflow works smoothly.
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@Serinus__dup_12049@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 11:21
5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.
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@kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 12:10
Inspiration for many more governments! I have already contacted my, Slovakian government. I should ping them again 😅
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@de_lancre@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 12:29
Amount of copium is insane in comments. Like, people straight up using fate, like it’s a docking religion, instead of using their head. Other countries also tried and failed. It’s never brings any profit, instead government usually end up losing shit ton of money. Reason is simple: adoption requires contribution. You need to hire new IT specialist, that knows linux and not windows. You need to do requalification of already existing specialist. You need to adapt software. You need to teach every single focking person how to work with new alternative software. And you need to suffer downtime, cause people still new to linux and it’s software. Adoption is very hard and those miserable savings on windows licensing is nothing compared to cost of migration. I’m not even saying “hypothetically”, here documented list. Blind coping will get you nowhere.
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@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2025-12-10 12:33
I swear to god if this is Schleiswig Holstein again I’m giving it back to Denmark
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@stoy@lemmy.zip 2025-12-10 12:33
They do this every few years, when the contract is up for negotiation, M$ will make a way cheaper option, and they will switch back
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@myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2025-12-10 13:11
This is so selfish. What about the shareholders?!!!??
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@oldest_meme_420@hilariouschaos.com 2025-12-10 13:53
So, which distro will they be using?
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-10 14:16
15mil more in the pockets of politicians as a reward for saving it, lol
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@zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2025-12-10 14:36
didn’t another german state already try this and fail pretty spectacularly?? cost them WAY more money and then they ended up rolling back to m$?? given that, this is fantastic news! it’s good to see people learn from past failed implementations, hopefully learn from their mistakes, and try again instead of just blaming it on bad software
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@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-10 21:34
This is also good news because it obviously means that german government will have to review the software used for possible security holes and close them, so everyone who also uses the software gets security fixes.
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@Jaybird@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 21:58
And since thes last update from the USA on how they view the EU, this will not be the last move EU countries will make. I know, I work for one of them. We are ACTIVELY planning our usexit.
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@fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-11 08:01
Another government stops renting key software and instead invests in actuall ownership! Honestly, if Microsoft said they wanted to own the Autobahn I could only imagine people would tell them to fuck off (in english and deutche). Why would digital infrastructure be any different?