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Title makes it sound like a done deal but so far there’s a promise that there will be a plan in a few months.
Sounds like the shift to Linux is happening. I'm guessing by law. So, the first step is prep and planning, they aren't going to back out of it, it just takes time to move an entire government over to a new OS.
Nah, the article is trash. There is no law, ministries have been asked to come up with a plan of what's possible to do to switch but I highly doubt most will switch. The education ministry recently renewed it's Microsoft contract and I don't think there is anything enforcing a switch, it's only a "please look at what could be possible" thing. The only thing switching for sure is the DINUM, about 250 people, a lot of them already using Linux. But this is the start of an experiment where they are building some NixOS configurations that could be used if a larger switch was to happen.
@misk What could maybe work: it should be made law, that 1% (or 10%) of all license cost paid by governmental organizations, must go into open source development, or services. The organization could freely choice, into what, and what it wants to get back.
@misk @not_IO Normally it silently fails on the wall of stupidity, and on the silent, cooperative undermining of the local microsoft activists in all departments. You can be sure, they do not want to learn "yet another system", they want to retire as a windows sysadm. And they work as a workplace mafia.
Sadly I can not see any good in this direction. Hope I see it badly!