Jovi445Leaving aside any political ideology, but for me every government should use free software, governments like the Brazilian one spend millions on proprietary software like Windows or Office 365 when in many cases free suites would already be fully capable of doing the heavy lifting.
Max@joaov1206b my thoughts exactly. Contrary to most people on this app I am capitalist, though imperfect I just think it's the best option at the moment. It confuses me how any country could spend money pointlessly? Whether you had corrupt politicians scraping money off the top or a perfect society where every last penny is used to benefit the people, why would you PAY for systems when the alternatives are FREE and even more flexible.
@themaxpearce Exactly, in my opinion there is a big Mafia behind this, I'm also a capitalist, but I don't doubt at all that these Big Techs put some kind of pressure on governments to adhere to their software solutions, anyway, obviously not wanting to praise China or Russia directly, but both have done very well in this regard, China has its own OS's based on Linux or even HarmonyOS itself with an independent base that unfortunately did not reach my country.
@joaov1206b Honestly I do think there's a big historical factor here. When these systems were first set up, Linux wasn't nearly as viable as system as it was today (especially for office use), so if you're looking for an OS that can run all the tools for the office, and want to maybe train those from the office to manage some infrastructure, you'd go Windows NT and Windows Server. Not to mention hardware support. We are just living with the aftermath of being locked into an ecosystem.
@themaxpearce It does make sense