It would make sense for the governments to fund a team of developers to maintain and upgrade the euro-gov version these products. Keep them open source, but have dedicated software developers working for the gov to maintain and improve them. This will still be far cheaper than enterprise licenses.
Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux
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Re: Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux
#12[dupe]
Denmark Is Switching to Linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346120
Previously:
The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234552
Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
Re: Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux
#13It would make sense for the governments to fund a team of developers to maintain and upgrade the euro-gov version these products. Keep them open source, but have dedicated software developers working for the gov to maintain and improve them. This will still be far cheaper than enterprise licenses.
I'd rather see the governments fund the main version and see the changes published upstream, everyone would benefit.
Re: Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux
#14For far less than the cost of a vendor contract, any government could hire a few developers to work on “their” version of the OS, office suite, apps, etc etc.
It could act as a friendly fork.
Good ideas in the fork could be upstreamed by the gov employees working with the project owners - or (since the gov-run fork is also open source) by literally anyone who wants that good idea upstream.
Seems like the exact thing open source is good at!
Re: Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows is so bad these days I actually expect this kind of problem to go down. Literally half the reason everyone complains their computers are not working is because of IT putting random crapware monitoring/security software on managed windows devices. Go away with windows the crapware goes away too and users have less problems. And that is just on top of the normal windows 11 crapware and bad UX.
There will be full of crapware available if enterprise starts adopting Linux on a wide scale. e.g. Crowdstrike is already there.
I dunno, MacOS has that IT crapware too and it is not _nearly_ as bad as windows IT crapware. And MacOS is used in enterprise at scale.