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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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[–] fuego@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's possible, but in the past I think Germany stuck with Windows after Microsoft gave them a better deal or something.

Heck, they may have even paid Germany to keep using Windows.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago*

That is how big companies operate. There was that huge lawsuit / fine of

1.4 billion corruption

A large corporation gave cash to companies and Govt officials to migrate to their software products.

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