• uranibaba@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Didn’t some municipality in Germany run Linux on all their desktops but had to stop, not because any fault with Linux but because of compatibility? The money saved on licenses was lost on having to find ways to integrate with other municipalities and problems when others had problems with their documents etc.

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      1 year ago

      Munich. Staff were happy with it, compatibility had nothing to do with it, and it definitely had nothing to do with the Mayor rubbing Microsoft’s back for moving their German headquarters back to Munich. Perish the thought.

      They’re more or less in the process of rolling back the rollback, though.

      Getting Berlaymont switched over would be the big get. Those people are writing memos advocating for the adoption of free software solutions and open document standards using MS Office.

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        1 year ago

        I remember reading someone responsible for the project saying something along the lines of hassle to send data to others. It could be another project or I could be wrong.