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Ask HN: Why EU doesn't adopts Open Source(?)
Hi, I'm so proud to ask this question [...].
I wonder "why not"; is it "just" because the big companies? Isn't EU somelike on a slighty counter part from US' Google's?
Why not to adopt seriously Open Source, clean communities, good points of views, and least but not last free software (even if when this doesn't has to mean gratis, off course)?
[thanks]
- notkaiho 6y agoWhat do you mean? The EU as a whole? That's like saying "why doesn't the United Nations adopt Open Source".
- slano 6y agoSorry, I mean at the people and members that works on Europen Parliament Committee/European Commission, e.g.; if them might promote such kind of business model as a good attitude, that enhanches local changes in favor of not using Windows OS on public offices, etc... I'm not an expert, but I don't think the costs would be that excessive, also in face of the goods it could give as possibilities to work in open projects, as a correctness behaviour.
- notkaiho 6y agohttps://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-source-software-strategy_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-sourc...
- sal_no 6y agoExcuse me but I did loosed the password from the account whose I was using to make the post. I'm also sorry but I was to know about this document, and the very point of my question is that "I'm even able to type a document", the difference is instead the reality were I don't see any office using an Open Source Operating System, but all Windows instead. I don't know, but from my poorly point of view this looks like people that "thalks about them working" vs "people that actually's on a job" (meaning at EU's Committee ones ofc). Thanks for you answer, anyway.
- lynnislu 6y agoYou shall have a look at nexedi(https://www.nexedi.com/ https://www.nexedi.com/) ... they use only open source, literally, softwares, hardwares (Chromebook as working pc).