The Menemen

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Cake day: December 18th, 2023
  • The Menemen@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice
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    4 days ago

    Nah, they can give out directives and regulations to force the hand of local legislation. It happens all the time for many things. I personally have to deal with the fallout of one atm.

    And I already said it costs money. And that is okay. National security costs money The EU spends several hundred billions every year on its military. A safe OS is much more important than a couple more jets. Even if it costs 5 billion euros, screw it even if it is 5 billion every year, it is still cheap compared to what it brings.

  • The Menemen@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice
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    4 days ago

    I am not just talking about funding, but about investing in operating an alternative OS. All goverment institutions should be switched over. A single entity alone is not able to do this, because they face too many compatibility problems with other institutions/contractors/software companies (this is also why the article says “mostly”, even the military isn’t able to do it on its own, not even just for the office package, leave alone the OS). But if the EU decides to do this, everyone else will follow and start using compatible software.