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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
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Do they seem like they are paying for a integrator like SUSE (they are THE German commercial FOSS/Linux company in my head) or is it more enthusiasts trying to push changes and providing support?
I guess it will be even worse. Instead of taking good money for hiring good people (I know this strategy is over simplified, as there are mandatory regulations for gv not being allowed to compete with the private sector. But if there would be the political will to find a way, there would be a way), gv will take even more money and found a consortium of 'experts' who will spend most of the funding to invent an exceptionally complex new wheel that none has ever seen before and take years in development... And the next gv will roll back. And that's that. Thinking about it I notice how desillusionated I became over the years...
Hopefully I will be wrong. This time. At least once.