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    Dieses deutsche Bundesland beschließt, jedes Jahr 15 Millionen Euro einzusparen, indem es Microsoft wegen Open Source rauswirft

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    1. OYTIS_OYTINWN on

      I’m all for it, but really wonder if they accounted for maintenance costs. Microsoft offers a service, while open source software is just code that someone still needs to run.

    2. HappyGoooz on

      Not throwing shade on this decision, but I’m missing the maintanance costs here. The article says that 15M was how much they paid for Microsoft license. Did it include support that now will disappear with the switch to open source? How much do they estimate the open source support and maintanance to cost?

      In general, getting rid of dependency on the US is great and we should push it everywhere.

    3. jidmah on

      It was tried before and failed before. It’s not like it would be impossible to do, but this would require an amount planning, competence and backbone that official institutes other than the Finanzamt usually lacks.

      There also is the issue with the insane amount of custom software the government uses which usually just barely works with the existing systems and would have to be rewritten to run on Linux. This problem will eat up all the savings and the next time the government changes, they will kill off the project again to save money – just like they did in Munich.

    4. fireeeebg on

      Finally they are realizing that increasing taxes and printing money isn’t sustainable.

    6. insaneroadrage on

      Didn’t Munich do the exact same thing, and then went back to Microsoft?

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