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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
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So the Germany has been moving back and forth between Microsoft and Linux / open-source.
Do you know what this smells like? Corruption and consulting companies with friends in the govt looking for ways to profit.
What else can be more profitable for a consulting company than shifting the entire IT of a city or a country between two largely incompatible solutions? :)
That's possible, but in the past I think Germany stuck with Windows after Microsoft gave them a better deal or something.
Heck, they may have even paid Germany to keep using Windows.
That is how big companies operate. There was that huge lawsuit / fine of
A large corporation gave cash to companies and Govt officials to migrate to their software products.