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[โ€“] 64 points 1 year ago (6 children)

if all goverment entities in the EU spent the money they pay for MS licenses on free software instead, they could fund hundreds of free software developers. How cool would that be?

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  • Hundreds? I think you mean tens of thousands. Microsoft products are expensive and their costs are embedded in everything.

    Need a replacement workstation? Add an extra hundred for the unavoidable cost of Windows.
    Office and Teams are an ongoing subscription fee that costs about $100 per employee. Sharepoint licenses run over a thousand a year before you add in custom modules.
    Microsoft's Azure cloud host is now running most things like your company's exchange server - so you pay for the Exchange service subscription AND the hosting costs.

    The list goes on.

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  • [โ€“] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Excellent! Returning to software which goal is "how can I make this easier and better for the user", instead of software made by the philosophy "how can I force the user to buy more payed services and how can we mine more data about the user".

    Hope more will follow as this will probably improve foss and make work life better for everyone :]

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Many Bundeslรคnder and cities are just embracing MSFT even more with Win 10's end and hop onto M365 with Exchange Online, which locks them in even more. This is the outliner.

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Teams is just a Trojan horse for SharePoint

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Teams is dogshit. Every time they push an upgrade, it makes my job selling it so much more difficult.

    Godspeed Germany, I hope you find a better solution shortly. It canโ€™t be that difficult.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is not. I am part of a small company (say 25 people) and we use combination of Rocket Chat, Jitsi, and Nextcloud (among other apps). It is literally unlimited licenses, forever, and it will keep working until the heat death of the universe, with no need to update ever until it stops working. Costs 60$ a month for a server to run these, plus Gitlab and tons of other services.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, a fellow Jitsi user in the wild!

    How is it treating you?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    Apart from having to write a custom script to automatically upload recordings to Peertube, pretty good! Some people have issues connecting from their work network because apparently our domain is not on some allow list for calls. But everything works out of the box, quality is nice, Rocket Chat has an integration. The only thing I am missing is scheduling calls where the host is one predefined user, and everyone has to wait until they connect, and moderator being the first to connect. It is stable, streaming works, UI is partially crude and some features do not work out of the box when not configured separately. But hey, it is free and no big corpo is snooping around!

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you are interested in the Germans public sectors open source developments check out openDesk: https://www.opendesk.eu/en

    If you want to know more, also take a look at openCode and ZenDis, the (kinda) government institution behind it.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year ago

    I just hope that sme of those saved โ‚ฌmillions head towards Linux / Libre Office

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year ago

    Me too, Germany

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  • [+] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [โ€“] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I see they will use libreoffice & Linux and it's all good but what are they replacing Teams with?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Mattermost is phenomenal, but it doesn't do audio/video calls. Unless there's been a massive update that I missed lol.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    This post is vying for most reposted article on Lemmy

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yea cause Lemmy users have a hard on for Linux and anything and everything Microsoft = terrible lmao its truly fun to read these comments at least.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well. It is objectively true that everything Microsoft is in fact terrible

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yea they are so terrible they are market leaders with trillion dollar cap, absolutely the worse.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The mistake you are making is conflating profitability and quality.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    No the mistake yall are making is ignoring if a product was truly bad then EVERYONE would abandon it but they don't been doing IT for 2 decades windows is going no where.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Microsoft has very, very good salespeople and they let the sunk cost fallacy do the rest. Their products donโ€™t have to be good. They just have to check certain boxes for sales and be recognizable, especially since so many people/businesses are genuinely unaware that alternatives exist, or think that (due to marketing and sunk cost fallacy) those are alternatives are โ€œtoo complicatedโ€ or โ€œtoo risky.โ€

    MS has been using aggressive anti-competitive practices for decades to secure and hold market share. Making good things that people genuinely enjoy is not part of their business plan.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago

    Good, now dump bibis nazi terror state.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    Can we stop rehashing this story?

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