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It's a shame that so much taxpayer money is flowing to US multinationals.

To save money, the solution IS NOT austerity

https://psacunion.ca/psac-statement-upcoming-federal-austerity-budget

To save money, get rid of waste.

Every province, every government department, should get rid of Microsoft and Adobe.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, yes we should, in the long term, but there will be short term retraining costs, inevitable required exceptions for edge cases, and we're not going to be able to get out of our contracts until they're actually over.

Also, given that the austerity budget is being driven by our NATO funding requirements to the tune of 150B per year, I don't think this is really the same order of magnitude discussion.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

but there will be short term retraining costs,

That is true with every change in software that any company makes. It's even true in some instances with major version upgrades of the same software.

Occational and ongoing training should be an expected normal cost of doing business.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 43 minutes ago

Changing user terminals from W10/11 to Ubuntu/Debian/WhateverOS should come with zero training, nearly everything is done in a web app now a days. That's thousands and thousands of MS license fees saved per year.