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nixCraft 🐧Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice: The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push. https://www.pcmag.com/news/denmark-wants-to-dump-microsoft-software-for-linux-libreoffice
Rob@nixCraft Well done Denmark, well done!👏👏
kopio@robchapman @nixCraft I hope it will succeed, and more organisations willing to give it a try on a larger scale.
Samuel Webdev & plus@nixCraft It's the right move in order to know what happens on their system.
Jonly@nixCraft meanwhile the german bundeswehr went into a 10 year contract with google
https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/meldungen/partnerschaft-bwi-google-bundeswehr-eigene-cloud-5952950
https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/meldungen/partnerschaft-bwi-google-bundeswehr-eigene-cloud-5952950
Markie 🤸@nixCraft Denmark is quite literally built on Microsoft and they are somehow kinda proud of it so the process towards sovereignty is going to be painful with lots of pushback probably... this is a teeeny step but a good one anyways.
(But they also just voted overwhelmingly in favor of having American troops on their soil with judicial freedom so well...
(But they also just voted overwhelmingly in favor of having American troops on their soil with judicial freedom so well...
Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@markiejiang @nixCraft we are doing the same in Schleswig-Holstein. I assume that there will be some cooperation, as we already collected lessons on how to do it and how to not do it. So 4 years is still a tough time frame. Especially, when you want to change MS Office -> LibreOffice and Windows 10/11 -> Linux.
SH aims to do this in steps. First, LibreOffice, then Mail, Nextcloud etc. and as last step replacing the operation system.
SH aims to do this in steps. First, LibreOffice, then Mail, Nextcloud etc. and as last step replacing the operation system.
@prefec2 @nixCraft yeah the office part is probably a good first step. The devs in DK are very centered around the azure/mssql/.net and moving out of that is probably going to be hard too. OS is giving to be tough but maybe not that urgent since even China (public service) is still on Microsoft and they seemed ok still...
RejZoR@nixCraft I frankly have no idea why Windows is even needed for office nonsense. 99% of the time OS needs to run a browser and some basic office tools like for writing and spreadsheets. And that's about it.
�@rejzor @nixCraft huh? i talked about this is addition to browser and office tasks https://www.skybuffer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/01-2.png
xs4me2Great idea… open source whenever you can!
hetoug@nixCraft note that this is a very small ministry with about 80 staff members. And they will only switch a small part of the total M$ suite. So it is foredoomed to be an amazing failure, that will allow everyone to conclude that OSS is useless and we should not switch.
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Solarpunk Davy@nixCraft I can't find where they're migrating to, do you know?
kjaerulv@nixCraft et a really small move, only involving 40 employees....and NO linux - just Libreofice on windows machines....
Leigh Marmon@nixCraft I run Libre office and Linux on a Raspberry 4, it does everything I need and without all that dross that comes with pucker box software, such a pain to run anything else, support the open office community I say, the days of MS domination has had its day
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Rui Seabra@nixCraft
Let's hope they don't threaten (again) to close down their offices there, which enjoy a lot of people...
Let's hope they don't threaten (again) to close down their offices there, which enjoy a lot of people...
Al & Val's Modern Homesteading
Nicole ParsonsWhen data centers are being built in petrostate dictatorships by US tech giants under the patronage of a fascist president...
Prudent move, Denmark.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/trump-ceos-lunch-saudi-arabia.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
The fossil fuel industry is gearing up for a world war.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/trumps-ai-gamble-in-the-gulf-doesnt-put-america-first/
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/05/saudis-invest-big-us-weapons-ai-trump-basks-welcome
https://restofworld.org/2025/trump-middle-east-trip-ai-chip-tech-deals/
Asbjornn@nixCraft Im seeing a lot of applause for this. And while this certainly is a step in the right direction, I feel obliged to mention that there are people out there who deserve even more applause.
This German state has actually done it. What happens in Denmark is a polit test. And it happens in the smallest ministry, which has no influence and mostly serves as a PR function for the government.
Therefore, please send the largest applause to our friends in Germany.
shironeko@shironeko @nixCraft We do not know much. They have made this public with the least possible hype. No press conference with the minister, no mention on their homepage.
If you’re pessimistic, you could see this as designed to fail so they can say: we tried and productivity fell by multiple percent!!!
If you’re optimistic, you could focus on the fact that it is the first time in 30 years someone is even entertaining the idea of non monopolistic software in the administration.
Emir Morataon 🏴☠️@nixCraft this good for denmark, and bad news my country more and more close with Microsoft 😭
amber@nixCraft yesss feed chat gpt denmark's secrets so the world can gobble them up alive
sonicJazzMonkey@nixCraft Go #Denmark for ditching #microsoft bloatware for #linux and #LibreOffice
#UKGovernment , take note and learn from the intrepid Danes.
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