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Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Yeah but you’re missing the point. Them choosing to change despite the massive marketing budget of m$ is what my takeaway would be. Migrations are almost never easy.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Exactly.

    This isn’t a decision being made to cut costs, it’s a strategic move because the EU just assessed how badly they’d be screwed if Trump throws a tantrum and forces American tech companies to disrupt services to their governments.

    In addition, the EU has strong data privacy laws and US tech companies are resisting compliance (Elon was recently fined 150million, for example).

    This has led to several hearings with tech executives who said that they could not guarantee that the data would stay in the EU and they could not guarantee that the data would not be provided to any other country.

    Digital privacy laws don’t mean anything if they don’t apply to the major tech companies and they’ve said that they won’t comply.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That comment does not state that imo. I interpret it as „If they would spend that money on the transitions and advancing the open source projects they consider switching to, that would help the process“. But maybe that’s just a misunderstanding.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Well I was of course talking about the comment you quoted.

    5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.

    How is that „using fate instead of using their head“? Germany already has funds in place specifically for open source projects so that’s not so far off the charts (even though the amount would be lower) so what’s your point ?

    Edit: And to be more specific the point of somehow being profitable is also not coming through to me on this, since when is open source software profitable except when used by for profit companies ? I can understand the hype, I also know it will be pain for people involved and M$ will do everything to reverse the change possibly leading to even more headaches for said admins etc. as has happened in the past but you can’t finish what you don’t start so I think it’s still good news.

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