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France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by harvey9 »

peter-m80 wrote: post #38

should be done at EU level and make it mandatory for all members

France has been doing this in parts of its government functions for years, building expertise and learning what works. What do you imagine the EU institutions would bring to the table?

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by picsao »

harvey9 wrote: post #42
peter-m80 wrote: post #38

should be done at EU level and make it mandatory for all members

France has been doing this in parts of its government functions for years, building expertise and learning what works. What do you imagine the EU institutions would bring to the table?

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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by Nasrudith »

tosti wrote: post #25
nickserv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My grandpa was doing just fine before those newfangled chariots became all the rage. What's wrong with walking?

I, for one, have never needed AI for anything ever in my life. AI has, however, made my life noticably worse. Especially when dealing with braindead robot driven customer "support". But also in making it financially impossible to buy more RAM or upgrade a GPU. I think we'd be better off without yet another bubble.

Were you born yesterday? Phone AIs being dumb didn't take LLMs at all. They were always stupid and frustrating to deal with substitutes for customer support.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by sdoering »

bpavuk wrote: post #23
gsky wrote: post #18

Finally Europe grew a spine

still growing, you mean. France is, however significant, just one country. and then there is broader push to FOSS inside Europe, as well as Europe's own sovereign solutions. some attempts were failed, some were successful, but everything is still in progress EDIT: on a second read, this sounded too diminishing of this achievement than I intended. the point is that it's not fully done yet, although it is remarkable th…

Sadly back in the day the city of Munich caved in (hosting Germany's MS headquarter). They had a good good run with their Linux. But the state of Schleswig-Holstein is pushing for more open source and switching to Libre Office (80% or so done). They talk about that on their Open Source Initiative page [1].

[1]: https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/themen/... (German only)

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by Toine »

selfsigned wrote: post #29

Really proud as a French, I think the government has had some success with moving to something matrix based for the public sector too. https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr I just hope we end up having more wins at the EU-level, instead of massive fails like GAIA-X...

"As a French" ne veut rien dire en anglais. Il faut rajouter man, person ou quelquechose. Frenchman, French person, French citizen.
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