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German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

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Re: German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

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Post by zihotki »

Hamuko wrote: post #5
reify wrote: post #2

Cool Hopefully they will move 30,000 wonkdows PC's to linux once Microsoft imposes the £61 annual extended security updates fee. let me open my terminal and start up python: 30000*61 1830000 £1,830,000 for the first year extended security updates and will double in consequitive years. A tad greedy! for a few old rotten wonkdows 10 machines. They first collected our data for free, then had the audacity to charge us fo…

What's the cost of training a bunch of public servants to use Linux?

If they manage to do the training and onboarding within 4 hours then that may worth it (considering minimal hourly rate 12.41 euro per hour). That doesn't look realistic.

Re: German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

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Post by zihotki »

gtvwill wrote: post #9
Hamuko wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the cost of training a bunch of public servants to use Linux?

Train once and never pay fees for the lifetime of the worker. Or still have to train on windows and pay fees ontop of standard user training for the lifetime of the user. Remember just because it's windows doesn't mean it doesn't require training. All business computer use takes training.

Or use classic approach - pay the lower price now and let the next goverment deal with the future problems.

Re: German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

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Post by Isolus »

cladopa wrote: post #4

They already did that before until Microsoft offered them new conditions and they went back to MS. So take all those "digital sovereignity" with a grain of salt. It usually means: "We want you to lower your fees".

No, they didn't. That happened for example in Munich. But that is on the other side of Germany. And there is already a joke that MS can't move their german headquarters every time a state or big city want's to move away from MS products. (They did this when Munich changed back to MS producs - but of course this was pure coincidence.)

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Post by lukan »

cladopa wrote: post #4

They already did that before until Microsoft offered them new conditions and they went back to MS. So take all those "digital sovereignity" with a grain of salt. It usually means: "We want you to lower your fees".

It was mainly in Munich and more about Linux in general and Bill Gates personally intervened. The next government rolled back to MS.

And no, data sovereignity means more than money, but it might cost more money in the end. There were quite some problems, but those could have been resolved. But not for free.

Re: German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

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Post by pjmlp »

reify wrote: post #2

Cool Hopefully they will move 30,000 wonkdows PC's to linux once Microsoft imposes the £61 annual extended security updates fee. let me open my terminal and start up python: 30000*61 1830000 £1,830,000 for the first year extended security updates and will double in consequitive years. A tad greedy! for a few old rotten wonkdows 10 machines. They first collected our data for free, then had the audacity to charge us fo…

You know to whom belongs many of the FOSS critical infrastructure projects nowadays, including some key CPython contributors, right?
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