Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The cynic in me says they are very good at burning through such amounts without any notable progress. However since it is open source, my hopes are up that this will lift the veil where otherwise bureaucracy and corruption will waste the money.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.

    It’d be a public service in more ways than one.

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  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are some detailed articles around in german tech magazine c’t. If you want more information, look there - this initiative looks quite well managed

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