<story><title>German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice</title><url>https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-state-planning-to-switch-25000-pcs-to-libreoffice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nivenkos</author><text>Now switch to Linux too.&lt;p&gt;The more we invest together, the easier it becomes. German states can help Spanish states, and Finnish schools, Danish universities, and French businesses, etc. - collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits and Europe can build its own Tech industry and have some independence from the US.&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely critical to move away from the dominance of &amp;quot;Big Tech&amp;quot; to FOSS solutions that independent, small co-operatives can maintain together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>formerly_proven</author><text>Munich did that a few years ago, which got rolled back after they elected the dude mayor who got Microsoft to move their German headquarters to Munich. Completely unrelated events, of course.&lt;p&gt;There were of course some technical problems as well, e.g. because a number of administrative tasks can only be performed using Excel 2003 with VBS macros enabled and stuff like that, as well as &amp;quot;technical problems&amp;quot;, like &amp;quot;users can&amp;#x27;t install software themselves&amp;quot; (i.e. users don&amp;#x27;t have root on the clients).</text></comment>
<story><title>German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice</title><url>https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-state-planning-to-switch-25000-pcs-to-libreoffice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nivenkos</author><text>Now switch to Linux too.&lt;p&gt;The more we invest together, the easier it becomes. German states can help Spanish states, and Finnish schools, Danish universities, and French businesses, etc. - collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits and Europe can build its own Tech industry and have some independence from the US.&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely critical to move away from the dominance of &amp;quot;Big Tech&amp;quot; to FOSS solutions that independent, small co-operatives can maintain together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Too little too late.  Most “office collab” is going cloud.  Neither Google nor MS are threatened by free&amp;#x2F;open thick client alternatives.  Users will still need their onedrive googledrive for collab.&lt;p&gt;Admittedly some work is non collab but more and more of that gets pushed to SaaS.</text></comment>