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German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/libreoffice@discuss.tchncs.de
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cool. I hope they don't screw it up again.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Microsoft is dispatching their special sales team as we speak.They are equipped with the latest gear and a special budget for a list of important, special people.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is my understanding that there have been a few false starts in Germany with open source in government accurate?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago

    There was the particular LiMux one in Munich that was "solved" by Microsoft moving their head quarter to a district of Munich and the then new conservative coalition in town government thanked them by rolling all back and buying MS products instead.

    Someone gave a little overview in that Hacker News topic mentioned.

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    • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago

    And a meanwhile growing large topic on Hacker News.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I hope the don't like using the scroll wheel on documents.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Based move tbh. Hope it stays that way too!

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