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7 European Governments That Are Ditching Microsoft for Open-Source Alternatives (www.toolzo.online)

submitted 1 year ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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[–] ckmnstr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Most of these listicle items are a decade old, at least the Munich one has failed. I'd also be surprised if the GDR picturesd in that map ditched Microsoft... I see so many accounts peddle their stupid AI aggregators here, it's getting annoying.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm not sure Munich can be regarded as a failure. MS corrupted the test case in every way they could. They couldn't afford it to be seen as successful.

https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/

Now it's not just cost but American can be seen as a reliable partner. Let anyone an American corporation.

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[–] ckmnstr@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I totally agree and I'm not saying FOSS is useless, quite the contrary. My only point was that articles like the above make it easy to frame the FOSS-hype as a nothingburger by being poorly researched, which is not what the movement needs.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn't true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.

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