Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions

Tramort@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember some city in Germany actually doing it some years back and then eventually giving up and switching back.

  googles

  It’s a little unclear exactly what software was and wasn’t switched, but sounds like it’s Munich, and now they’re back on LibreOffice again.

  winbuzzer.com/…/munich-ditches-microsoft-office-a…

  By 2006, the city had started a concerted effort to move away from Microsoft products and onto Linux. Fast forward to 2013 and 80% of all workstations in the government and related organizations were running LiMux. However, Microsoft’s Windows and Office services were still used.

  As we reported back in 2017, the government made a controversial decision to abandon open source and return to Windows.

  A newly elected government in Munich, Germany has said it will aim to use open source solutions in its offices. In doing so, the government is moving away from Windows and Microsoft Office despite committing to the products several years ago.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

  LiMux was a project launched by the city of Munich in 2004 in order to replace the software on its desktop computers, migrating from Microsoft Windows to free software based on Linux.[citation needed] By 2012, the city had migrated 12,600 of its 15,500 desktops to LiMux. In November 2017 Munich City Council resolved to reverse the migration and return to Microsoft Windows-based software by 2020.[1][2][3] In May 2020, it was reported that the newly elected politicians in Munich, while not going back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux wholesale, will prefer Free Software for future endeavours.[4]

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  • menemen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amd just after Munich announced it will go back to Windows, Microsoft decided to move its German central to Munich. What a coincidence.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Munich did exactly that in 2017, so let’s see how far Sleswig-Holstein is willing to go, hopefully they won’t be falling for Microsofts sweet talk.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason Munich switched back to Windows, when users were just fine working with Limux, was a corrupt politician who ordered the return to windows, probably pocketing a hefty bribe in the process.

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    • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Source?

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      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        zdnet.de/…/stadt-muenchen-erwaegt-abkehr-von-linu…

        The article from 2014 explains how this was mostly a political quarrel, with a former administration transitioning away from Microsoft (which as a US corporation has no business in any government administration of another country), and the conservatives pushing (under a “social democrat” mayor, admittedly) to go back to MS against technological advice.

        Im Stadtrat hingegen steht den Berichten zufolge eine fraktionsübergreifende Mehrheit hinter LiMux. Bettina Messinger, Sprecherin der SPD-Fraktion für Personal, Verwaltung und IT, sagte Heise Online, dass man keine neue Haltung zu dem Thema habe. Sie bezeichnete die Umstellung auf Linux als „mutige Entscheidung“. Kritische Stimmen und Beschwerden seien im EDV-Bereich nichts Ungewöhnliches. Man müsse LiMux und das Umfeld nun stetig verbessern und nutzerfreundlicher gestalten. Unter anderem sei dafür mehr IT-Personal in der Verwaltung nötig.

        Auch die CSU-Fraktion unterstützt LiMux weiter. Deren IT-Experte Otto Seidl nannte Schmidts Kritik „eine sachfremde Einzelmeinung eines Juristen“. Die Grünen warnen Heise zufolge vor einem „teuren Schildbürgerstreich“, sollte die Stadt zu Microsoft zurückkehren. Demnach wollen die Abgeordneten in einer Ausschusssitzung klären, woher die Beschwerden stammen.

        In other words: the “manyfold complaints” were an “ad populum” argument without sources and were most likely made up.

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• Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  !remindme 1 fiscal quarter

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