Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 days agoThe 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
People in government IT jobs who maintain Microsoft systems aren’t going to be contributing to FOSS codebases. They’re not developers.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
They can report unusual bugs though and SHOULD be competent enough to write good bug reports
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
I don’t know how many government workers you’ve met, but I wouldn’t have much hope of that haha