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I’d quit my job if I was forced to a Linux desktop and non office365 tools. The loss of productivity in this change is going to be massively disruptive. It’s not going to go as smoothly as they think it will. I highly doubt their pilot program sniffed out all the complexities.
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In those cases, there's not really a practical non-proprietary option. Whereas with a lot of software, there is a practical non-proprietary option.
It's a stupid question and virtue signal statement no matter which way it goes. Either it falls down on itself from hypocrisy, or it falls down on itself from defying reality.
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It’s kind of a bummer that there’s a bunch of these separate OSS initiatives in Spain, France, Germany and a few other countries.. Instead of everyone rolling their own subvariant of Nextcloud, Matrix, LibreOffice etc, imagine if there was an EU mandate set up and some serious money was budgeted to it. You’d get a triple multiplier of more budget, less duplication of effort, and a self-reinforcing cycle where more us…
But isn’t this the very centralisation we’re trying to avoid?
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Do the americans exclusively use MS Office in government computers?
Yes. Most schools too. Microsoft has incredible political power here.
Also OnlyOffice is a much better candidate, it's very usable and OSS as well.
> Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor? I don't want to be a pessimist, but working with non-traditional tools is going to cost the taxpayers more money when important documents are not formatted correctly or the software behaves differently than the proprietary alternatives. Linux is successful on the server because it has huge corporate backing.…
How many malware attacks are based on some kind of Office exploit?
Is this normal? It certainly would be an outlier back in the US.
As much as I congratulate them for moving away from Microsoft Office as much I feel this is a step in the wrong direction. We need to move our administration away from the paper centric workflows of a world that is long gone for most people.
German bureaucracy is still paper driven. Having lived in other countries with more or less full digital access to all the stuff Germans still do with paper forms or in person, I know the difference. It's slow, tedious, expensive, error prone, etc.
Any paper forms should move online. The whole ritual of printing them, filling them in with a pen, and then having people manually copy information back into some ancient database is just completely backwards. People should sign stuff digitally. This is not only possible but common practice in most of the countries bordering Germany.
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What's the alternative? Would they be able to do more without cloud office solutions? Like in the days long last we used to email .doc files to each other? I doubt it. Would hosting an on-prem alternative yeld better cost and a higher uptime? I doubt it.
You mean emailing .doc files around to co-workers, like what happened yesterday?
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Microsoft spent so much money to make it fail.
How do they do that? I mean, practically? If the open source solution works, where do Microsoft spend money to make it fail?