Comment on Google give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push.

• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is also Libre Office. If they were serious about cutting government waste, they wouldn’t use Microsoft or Google.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you’re just thinking about word processing and spreadsheets neither of which covers the big things orgs want out of these suites: email, chat, video meetings, shared document storage.

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    • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They already have their own programs to do all that. They have had them since outlook was just a client and before Microsoft and Google offered email services.

      The government should be using FOSS software simply to be a good stewart of our tax money.

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They already have their own programs to do all that. They have had them since outlook was just a client and before Microsoft and Google offered email services.

        I can’t quite tell what you’re recommending here. Are you saying the government should go back to using Sendmail SMTP servers, telnet or IRC chat, and NFS shares as replacements for modern enterprise communication suites?

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