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Germany's largest state cancels their Microsoft contract worth nearly €1 billion over 5 years (cybernews.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world
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Instead, Bavaria will pursue a “sovereign basic workspace” based on open-source components

This will hopefully encourage other administrations to do the same.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

i'm pretty sure it's not only about the money. microsoft fears that some state/country/city could be govern without them. up until now nobody thought about another os, windows was and is the default.

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