German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog - Lemmy.World

They will need to stay the course and not be tempted with huge Microsoft savings Microsoft will give them just like what happened with Munich: zdnet.com/…/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shift…
Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again

Munich's flip-flop back to open source is the latest sign of Germany's political sea change over proprietary software.

ZDNET

The agreement was finalized Sunday and the parties will be in power until 2026. "We will adhere to the principle of 'public money, public code'. That means that as long as there is no confidential or personal data involved, the source code of the city's software will also be made public," the agreement states.

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