Aren't French authorities quite ahed on FOSS adoption in their platform? I.e. https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en

The whole article is a good read but this is the important bit:

Instead, the northern state will turn to open-source software to "take back control" over data storage and ensure "digital sovereignty", its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.

They also blame Trump which is pretty hilarious but probably not terribly relevant to the community.

Trump's executive order forced Microsoft to disable access for ICC's Chief Prosecutor. So, in a sense, Trump is indeed a threat to digital sovereignty.

Yes, they'll use Linux.

They have their systems only they use, therefore they can easily make them on Linux or emulate.

Also, a lot of systems are web-based (and therefore automatically multi-platform) these days.

Is that not literally the same link as the OP?

EDIT: Ah, the OP's edit from 30 minutes before your comment has not federated out to your instance yet.

Don't forget, most computers are faster on Linux than on the newest windows version, so you can hold off on upgrades for longer if the hardware is physically fine, which just further decreases costs.

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

do France next

I currently see this URL provided by https://thebrainbin.org/u/@Pro@programming.dev and it is not identical: https://us.afpnews.com/article/?were-done-with-teams-german-state-hits-uninstall-on-microsoft%2C49PM3G2=

Linux is great for government work.

They dont need compatibility as much. They have their systems only they use, therefore they can easily make them on Linux or emulate.

Otherwise they need a office suite like Libre.

And there's money to save. Benefits the whole country.

Why would we uninstall France?

Hmm, I think this is an Mbin vs Lemmy issue. There are two differences in the URL:

1. The broken URL has %2C instead of ,. This part does not make a difference, because that resolves to a comma anyway
2. The broken URL has = at the very end for some reason. This is what breaks it. Remove that character, and the URL works fine

The weird thing here is that the broken URL only ever shows up on Mbin. Below are a few different links to the comment in which you shared the broken URL. If you view the comment on your Mbin instance, it is indeed broken. But if you view it on this community's Lemmy instance or my home instance, your same comment actually has the working URL. Something about how the post/comment were federated must have messed things up.

• https://programming.dev/post/32148095/17523722
• https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36630589/20713561
• https://thebrainbin.org/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/864885/We-re-done-with-Teams-German-state-hits-uninstall-on-Microsoft/comment/6706294#entry-comment-6706294

I didn't see what exactly they're using for a Teams replacement?

do France next

Aren't French authorities quite ahed on FOSS adoption in their platform? I.e. https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en

And if it sticks, good. But it still has the fundamental problem of needing to re-train all your existing employees AND train new staff who haven't been brought up in that system.

Its on a completely different scale, but plenty of tech youtubers have done the "Let's get rid of all the Adobe in my life". Some succeed. Most tend to come down on some variation of "I can do about 99% of what I used to do in these two or three tools. And these ten things are actually genuinely easier and more performant. But we can't take a month off making videos to get all of our editors up to speed. And this also removes our ability to contract out an edit to someone with the industry standard workflow". And from my professional experience in different fields, that is true. Hiring someone and then spending a week or a month so they can use YOUR tools becomes a huge burden in not too long of a time.

I really hope Germany pulls it off this time and more governments follow. But I also remember all the other times I have read this story.