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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software"

  1. “hilariously”?
  2. Examples?
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

CAD, CAM, EDA, audio/video production (NLVEs, DAWs, synthesisers etc.).

There are open source options sometimes, but they are all faaar behind the commercial options. No fiscally sane business or government department would use them (unless they only need a small job, or are quite masochistic).