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Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wonder if it creates more inhouse sysadmin jobs? When you buy a license from M$ you also get tech support. But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

    • Not necessarily, most commercial enterprise Linux distros sell support contracts, for example, RHEL and SUSE being the two most famous examples of that.
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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah true, but these are more business to business. RHEL support is pretty expensive, and in my experience Oracle support (maybe not really open source) is both terrible and ridiculously expensive. Maybe this will create a market for more consumer like support. Maybe that could even create new business models for open source software.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I think you're right about creating demand for more consumer like support, someone in in another comment chain on this post mentioned several Danish municipalities doing something similar with their schools...

    Is there a relevant cert to do this kind of work yet? I think it would be interesting to do Linux tech support. Maybe just find a junk laptop and work my way through the Arch wiki breaking and fixing stuff (since my main Linux distro has been incredibly hands off so far)?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Possibly does. On occasion I read about German cities trying to do similar, but then reverting back to M$.

    Most of the issues are around people not wanting to take time to get use to new software (happened at a job where they moved to GSuite) or the FOSS stuff not having a corporation that can be sued for loss of earnings (like crowd strike when they didn't read only friday). Note that these are not technical issues with FOSS.

    Still there is political support to not just use this as an angle to get M$ to lower their pricing.

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