Question! Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor? And what happens to citizens' data? A solution is to move to free and open source software like #Linux and #LibreOffice – which is exactly what Schleswig-Holstein is doing: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #privacy
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@libreoffice That is great to hear! Please brace for the political backlash and constant and continuous lobbying of proprietary software vendors.
That's what in the end brought down earlier attempts in e.g. Munich (#LiMux) or the German Federal Foreign Office.
