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Hurray! This German State Decides to Save โ‚ฌ15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source (itsfoss.com)
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[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

Ehhhh this time might be different. The shift seems to be cultural across European country's leaderships.

They're seeing Trump's actions, they're seeing the repeated failures by Microsoft and the repeated monopolistic abuses by Microsoft and Silicon Valley as a whole (which, that's a term that's seemed to entirely fall off now that I think of it!) they're finally seeing what the Linux evangelists have been saying, as well as seeing the potential money to be made by nurturing their own European tech industry

I think it's the right storm of the Trump administration coinciding with Microsoft's sketchy Windows 11 migration (with at least half a billion devices being sent to the ewaste pile early) also coinciding with the very visible alignment of large tech platforms with Trump. Its also been a solid 30 years (give or take) of Microsoft dominating the desktop landscape and the last 15 years (give or take) of Microsoft consuming more and more of the server and cloud landscape, so individual decision makers have had plenty of time to get more and more fed up with Microsoft

The only question is if there's enough negative sentiment and distrust towards Microsoft and other American tech companies to push through the growing pains of scaling these open source solutions to entire countries, which we may well have given we're still in the first of 4 years of another Trump administration (especially if the Republican party remains as far out of alignment with Europe as they have been)