Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Important notice in this regard is that there is agreement on this on both the left and right sides of parlament!
So this is NOT something that will change with new administrations in either government or local communities.
When this is implemented, I don’t see any way for Microsoft to get that business back!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
People complain different, government sees increased costs, and then they switch back
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
IDK if you read the article, but in 5 years cost of licenses paid to Microsoft increased 72%.
Also even if cost increase temporarily, it creates local jobs skill and knowhow. Every “dollar” spend benefits the local community! instead of just sending the money to USA.
Servicing with open source and Linux will rapidly become cheaper than Microsoft, because there will be no artificial disruptions caused by Microsoft planned obsolescence or forced updates or whatever crap Microsoft is pushing.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I feel like there has to be a push in education for open source success
KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 3 days ago
A couple dozen of Danish municipalities are working on replacing Google and Microsoft entirely in schools with a project called OS2Skole (skole meaning “school”). It’s expected to save them around €3 million in yearly and the intention is to de-Googleify and de-Microsoftify children already from an early age and to make it open source.
www.os2.eu/os2skole
Mind you that the project was started before Trump got re-elected.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The majority of Internet infrastructure runs on either something Linux based or something FreeBSD based.
A lot of the tools used are also various flavours of open or semi open source.
I’d say open source already has success. Just not in places where you see consumers using it. Except… Wait a minute, Android is a fork of Linux, and Android is open source too.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes average people need to learn the open source stack instead of Microsoft.
It used to be most people could just learn some Microsoft thing, and they were almost guaranteed a job. Obviously a lot of people will be unhappy that isn’t the case anymore, and they’ll be annoyed they have to learn something new.
But this should have been done 20 years ago when Linux was obviously ready for it, and sensible people have advised it for just as long.
In the old CP/M days we had lots of good software developed locally, but when IBM became dominant, and chose to use MS-Dos, Microsoft was very
cleverlydeviously leveraging that to sabotage the competition, and take mostly every main stream market.Trump is kind of a blessing in disguise, because he finally got people to wake up to reality.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Local libraries here and there in Copenhagen have already switched to Manjaro. Haven’t heard anyone complain about it.