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Opensource AI Must Win (opensourceaimustwin.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a good example look at the national police in france. They ditched windows for a custom linux distro and are now saving like 10 million or more euros a year. That's money that used to come from taxpayers to a foreign company and now that money can stay local and help improve the taxpayers lives instead of buying someone a 3rd yacht.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I wish all these European Linux projects would pool resources and create one good solution instead of each little country or even city DIYing their own solution.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Germany alone pays €200mio per year to Microsoft. Imagine what would happen if this money would go to FOSS development instead? And imagine what would happen if all EU countries would follow suit?

    And now the really crazy part: what if they all didn't do their own little thing but instead pooled resources? That would overtake Microsoft within months.

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