The ICC is one of those orgs where not having their data sitting on silicon valley servers is a big friggin' deal, and they should have probably thought of that years ago.

I look forward to a Europe fully on its own cloud and software stacks or at least FOSS options.

Let's hope that this process will continue even after Trump

Has anyone used OpenDesk? Looks like they have a community edition

Never heard of open desk...

Why not pick the typical LibreOffice?

If the OpenDesk software is open source, will that mean each government body will start using a different flavor of it? Seems like an upkeep nightmare for governments.

I'd hope so considering the current US administration is friendly with multiple people they have charged and issued warrants for such things as crimes against humanity and genocide. And the US has access to Microsoft data which likely includes all documents stored in any Office cloud products.

It will probably end up running better for them anyway.

Seriously, I use Office at work, and I wonder everyday why anyone subjects themselves to it. Then I subject myself to it because that's what I'm supposed to use. But I sure as hell don't at home.

I had never heard of Open Desk before, what do we know of this suite?

Microsoft has and will continue to do Trumps bidding when it comes to the ICC, so this is a very good but also very late decision.

Hopefully they will pay for it and train their staff to use it. Otherwise they are just setting themselves up for failure and some "Christian Democrat" to accept a Microsoft bribe and claim there are "too many problems".

P. S Thank you Trump for sanctioning the head of the ICC. Please sanction more people with the power to make pro opensource decisions 😍