Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 days agoPush back against what? All of these countries’ governments moving away from MS are doing it for digital sovereignty, nothing else. They want to be in control of their data.
The dream here, in FOSS terms, is that governments see the massive potential value in using FOSS, and start actively contributing to it.
Imagine if the German or Danish government puts the people on their IT payroll (who are now maintaining Microsoft systems) to maintain FOSS systems. This would be a huge benefit for everyone, and may push stuff like Microsoft into being a niche.
People in government IT jobs who maintain Microsoft systems aren’t going to be contributing to FOSS codebases. They’re not developers.
They can report unusual bugs though and SHOULD be competent enough to write good bug reports
I don’t know how many government workers you’ve met, but I wouldn’t have much hope of that haha
Zephorah@discuss.online 4 days ago
Of course, but it sets an example, proves to people that Linux can be mainstream and usable well beyond the corners where that mindset already exists.