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Germany's largest state cancels their Microsoft contract worth nearly €1 billion over 5 years (cybernews.com)
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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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[-] Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

It'll will help if they even give a 10th of that € to the open source products they use. Imagine how great that could be for things like next cloud and open office

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