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I said this before, but will say it again: Trump is pure evil, but he is having positive (unintended) consequences. One of them will be is the migration he is triggering away from Big Tech.
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Hi, WeasyPrint/pydyf dev here! > usually a good way to deal with it is to only use a very simple but coherent subset and enforce this usage with validation tools You’re right, that’s exactly what we do. We support a growing subset of HTML and CSS that’s documented. We also use the W3C testing suite for HTML/CSS, and PDF validators, on top of custom unit tests. > And big tech is not the only one trying hard to do vend…
How about typst, do you not consider that competition??
I said this before, but will say it again: Trump is pure evil, but he is having positive (unintended) consequences. One of them will be is the migration he is triggering away from Big Tech.
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Munich switched to Linux in 2012. But they switched back to Microsoft in 2020 because they never could get it to work completely. At least not to the level of comfort in the old system. Open source has its advantages, but MS dominates the business world because of its tech support that is truly second to none on that scale. If Europe wants independence, they need to support local businesses and not just technology.
Tech support is clearly very important but I have a hard time believing there wasn't a great amount of lobbying involved as well.
Do they need an intranet wiki/web page solution to replace Sharepoint as well?
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Away from AMERICAN big tech
Well, I'm a FOSS supporter but, given the current situation, I would be happy if we had European big tech.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
So it's not so easy, although yes, of course it's better to avoid depending on an hostile and powerful nation.
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From the guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I wouldn't call it a shallow dismissal. If you used Libreoffice you already know the current state of it. It is slow, buggy, way behind in features compared to MS Office and the UI is a mess. If I tried to take Excel away from my co-workers and gave them Libreoffice Calc there would be a riot.
What bugs are stopping you?
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There was, but not from Microsoft. It was the employees who were not happy with the new systems.
Employees do not participate in the procurement process. It boils down to the requirements and how does it affect possible bidders. Most of the requirements can be easily met with OSS, there were prob others plus the drop of the price from MS