Schleswig-Holstein is a state in Germany which dumped Microsoft products and saved 15 million euros of taxpayer's money in license costs (Windows and MS-Office) by migrating to open source products. Why can't other states and countries adopt FLOSS and save tax payers money? What could be the key issues they face?
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@nixcraft migrating legacy systems/documents, training, finding consultants/managed services that can work with FOSS
@nixCraft there is an EU Linux project but for reasons, it is based on Fedora! That'll be a no thanks from here.
@nixCraft lobbying is a bitch let me tell you
In Canada many cities run much of their on-line processes using google.
So, why worry about Chinese data theft?
@nixCraft One key issue is the massive influence of big tech corporations. Just think of [LiMux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux)
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