Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago15 years ago this statement would lead to accusations of being anti-globalist, communist, economically illiterate.
15 years ago this still made economical (just not political) sense and was the right approach.
Now it still is, but there’s an additional quality - I think the incentive is not of public good, it’s of strengthening authoritarianism on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. Domestic authoritarians always want to play with their toys without foreign authoritarians meddling. But if the domestic environment is not authoritarian, only foreign is, then they are not in conflict, and the other way around too.
So this may mean that both USA and EU are changing for the worse, for now.
Not attacking Linux or LibreOffice.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would argue that switching to an open-source model for all your tools is more globalist. Open source projects are being maintained by people all over the world, and any group or branch is allowed to modify and redistribute their personal version of any project.
It’s the opposite of being subject to an ever growing corporation you can’t even put checks on. Every government using the product of a single small group of massively rich corporations is giving said corporation unprecedented power over the world.
msage@programming.dev 2 days ago
Unless you use Redhat or just fork anything yourself without upstreaming changes.