I really hope GNU/Linux can run on old Fax machines and the printing out emails workflow works smoothly.

Seriously. While I support the change to foss solutions, this is going to go over like a fart in church for the people that were just forced off fax machines and into email a year ago. And there’s a zero percent chance that Germany will use any of those savings for a support infrastructure. The German way is to figure it out, and endure the suffering while you do with the bare minimum of support from people that barely know the shit themselves. I have a friend who is principal at a high school here in DE and the stories she’s been telling me about the new push to get tablets into the hands of kids is straight fkn Monty Python level absurdity… from the staff! Germany painted themselves into a corner with their refusal to modernize their tech infrastructure. The “it’s not broken, so don’t fix it” mentality has left them 20 years behind all their neighbors. But, hey, traditions over everything… amirite?

You might want to read this article. Yes, it’s in german. Yes, it’s behind a paywall. But your analysis is totally wrong here www.heise.de/select/ct/…/2502709361580779387

In German and paywall. You can read it again for me. Or maybe fax it on over.