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As I recall, this sort of public statement is used as a lever to squeeze some discounts out of Microsoft's Enterprise Sales team before the government "decides" to stay with Windows.
As a french, I have to say the french local police (gendarmerie) has been using Ubuntu in all their stations for years and they are very happy with that !
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Why would a government maintain their own distro in the first place? Other than some minor modifications, what is it about S. Korea gov. officials that's fundamentally different from Office workers that they need specific Linux functionality? Surely at the level of app/drivers or something, but probably not core functionality. The whole point of the process was to save money, and one of the ways they can do that is b…
Fundamentally different are at least timeframes and security. Think decades of operations and advanced persistent threats.
By 'pooling' I mean paying some smart people to do that. Like Rad Hat. Or --> Micrsoft! Or whoever.
Software is like anything else: it has to be made and maintained, it takes work, and someone has to pay for it.
The fundamentally different issue is 'platform monopolies' which we have to watch out for. But other than that it's just a product.
S. Korean gov. probably spends a zillion dollars making and maintaining roads. Do they design and build their own construction equipment? No way. Because it makes more sense for all of us if they pay some specialized people to do that, i.e. 'just buy it'.
More specifically to your point, it might make sense for a 'state version' of some linux distro, that really wasn't a functional variation, but more or less a 'bundle'. Maybe RedHat could do this ...
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Whats worse is they could all pull it off if they invest in existing Distros and hire people to build out the main infrastructure they need. If they rely on legacy Windowd OS' the licenses for new OS' wont matter. They need secure systems to avoid being hacked by external malicious state actors. I would love to see some countries adopting Linux for government systems and funding research and development e.g. maybe fu…
> Whats worse is they could all pull it off if they invest in existing Distros and hire people to build out the main infrastructure they need I don't know about that, I've seen what kinds of systems the existing distros build and I'm not impressed. Which isn't to say that Microsoft would definitely better, seeing as they are doing their best to become a Linux distro themselves while embracing all the bad behaviors th…
What do you mean by this?
I used to support our office in S. Korea. It's true they depend super heavily on ActiveX and other weird applets/software that runs only on Windows and/or IE. A lot of the communication with the government (yearly tax submission) as well as banking software would not run on our Linux or OSX devices, and so we had these 'loaner' windows 'tax machines' that got reimaged every few days that people could use to do their…
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As a french, I have to say the french local police (gendarmerie) has been using Ubuntu in all their stations for years and they are very happy with that !
Wait until chrome is not fully working anymore and all their shiny webapps require it.
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Except that Munich switched back[1]. [1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_sa...
After Microsoft moved their german headquaters to Munich, which of course had nothing to do with their decision to switch back.
As I recall, this sort of public statement is used as a lever to squeeze some discounts out of Microsoft's Enterprise Sales team before the government "decides" to stay with Windows.
Whats worse is they could all pull it off if they invest in existing Distros and hire people to build out the main infrastructure they need. If they rely on legacy Windowd OS' the licenses for new OS' wont matter. They need secure systems to avoid being hacked by external malicious state actors. I would love to see some countries adopting Linux for government systems and funding research and development e.g. maybe fu…
China has this "original" OS called Redflag Linux, it's basically repackaged Linux to rake in government money, sells to military for some 500 usd per pc, the kickback must be big.
And yet nothing is as common as pirated windows. Even one of the displays in an airport crashed and there was a bsod
(It's super common for information displays everywhere to run Windows)
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Wait until chrome is not fully working anymore and all their shiny webapps require it.
Chrome is planning on dropping Linux support!? That seems exceedingly unlikely so I'd appreciate a source.