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See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.
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German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
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Many countries are currently ditching Windows in favor of home grown distros due to distrust of Microsoft. Notable examples: Currently transitioning: - Astra Linux (Russia) https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-military-moves-closer-... - Kylin Linux? (China) https://www.techradar.com/news/china-to-ditch-all-windows-pc... - South Korea https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-koreas-government-explor... Already transition…
Yeah, aware of those... But... I wouldn't really use most of the countries on your list to set an example for the rest of the world, if you know what I mean...
France's police uses Linux for 10 years now, a specific Ubuntu distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
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September 2016 - Microsoft moves its German headquarters to Munich[36] February 2017 - Politicians discuss proposals to replace the Linux-based OS used across the council with a Windows 10-based client.[37] October 2017 - Once seen as a stalwart supporter of open source, the city council last week said that running a Linux-based operating system on its PCs would not be cost efficient in the long run.[38] November 201…
And that's pretty much the reason anything is not fixed/properly built in government software or anything really, every 4 years scrap everything and start from scratch is not sustainable
I guess the sad thing is that it really is sustainable, since taxpayers won't stop paying taxes.
Re: German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
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#166Each few years I see such post. Ditching one or another user facing OS in relatively large and non-homogenous environment ends up as consultant feast without significant impact.
Problem is that that there are almost zero alternatives to MS in client computing as platform, what works relatively out of box. I dont speak about one piece, like Desktop os, but all togehther. Ofc you can try glue together, but its jaegernautic task. Most likely you will fail badly, because developing vertically integrated ecosystem of IT products is hard. Even MS does on each 2nd iteration well. All talks about cost savings are always non-sense, when you are serious customer even MS starts hearing you. Ofc if you are all in oficey stuff, then of course your bargaining power is almost zero. But if you try to use open standards and web based systems, then you have got some leverage. Same is true about multicloud, it should be used when bargaining with your cloud provider and you say: you know we can leave in next 2(actually 200) months
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See general state of development/corruption for all ex-soviet countries versus the rest of the developed world.
You wouldn't call a president that by all means takes from the poor, and gives it to the rich, to himself, and to children as corrupt? How about many, many senators who are doing the exact same thing? How about a prime minister that does the same?
There is just as much corruption in the developed world as there is in ex-Soviet countries.
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Right now we need an opensource teleconferencing system much more than an opensource OS. Edit: I think people recommending jitsi below misunderstood my comment
Maybe BigBueButton, then? https://bigbluebutton.org/
My university is using BBB for its only lectures, and it has been great so far (~2 months). I think it also is a self hosted solution, which is great.
Re: German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux
#170Each few years I see such post. Ditching one or another user facing OS in relatively large and non-homogenous environment ends up as consultant feast without significant impact. Problem is that that there are almost zero alternatives to MS in client computing as platform, what works relatively out of box. I dont speak about one piece, like Desktop os, but all togehther. Ofc you can try glue together, but its jaegerna…
And even countries like Russia have got problems ditching MS. Their encryption software works much better on win, then linux