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With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
They even have a mastodon instance where their government is on too @landesregierung@social.schleswig-holstein.de . I can’t find information how many PCs have been migrated though… Am I missing something?
P.S Hopefully Microsoft doesn’t pay off some politicians to switch back like in Munich…
Good grief, reading comprehension is terrible here.
Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice.
The next paragraph says what the article is about
Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the German c’t Magazin. It discusses various reasons for the migration to LibreOffice and Linux, including:
If you read the linked article you’d also realise it doesn’t mention how it’s progressing, just their timeline. Hence my question: how is it progressing?
They even have a mastodon instance where their government is on too @landesregierung@social.schleswig-holstein.de . I can’t find information how many PCs have been migrated though… Am I missing something?
P.S Hopefully Microsoft doesn’t pay off some politicians to switch back like in Munich…
It’s right in the headline?
Thanks, I see you only read the headline and not the articles linked. Congrats.
It’s a linked toot, which also says 30,000? And the article it links to says 30,000 in the first paragraph?
Good grief, reading comprehension is terrible here.
The next paragraph says what the article is about
If you read the linked article you’d also realise it doesn’t mention how it’s progressing, just their timeline. Hence my question: how is it progressing?