they are also no providing intelligence and ai assistance to the israeli regime rogue state genocide on neighboring city state Palestine
Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
altphoto@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
It’s because libre office doesn’t spy on you.
Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
altphoto@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Or sending your position to the migration services so they can send you to Guantanamo.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’d think it would be obvious that a country wouldn’t want to depend on a foreign country’s proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it’s not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn’t affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.
There’s simply no reason to take the risk.
If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.
Obviously, that’s not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.
altphoto@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Plus everyone benefits. Even Microsoft would benefit from healthy competition… Instead of making shit software, they should fix the problems.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
M$ and Apple both extensively use OSS projects in the creation and maintenance of their own products. And neither really fund many/any of the projects they use. So this would directly benefit them even further.