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German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the Minister-President: Independent, sustainable, secure: Schleswig-Holstein will […]
In addition, there is this question: Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor? In addition, local governments can maintain full control of the software, study its source code, make changes they require and deploy it entirely on their own infrastructure. So we welcome the decision in Schleswig-Holstein to move its IT administration to free and open source software, for all the benefits it brings, both for the local government and the almost three million citizens of the state.
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