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Didn't Germany at one point, try to do this? I'm not sure if they still are using Linux. Also certain Chinese agencies are most definitely using custom distros

• jjkaczor 5y ago
  Yes, Germany did do this for a few years. And the Microsoft came calling again - guess what they use now? It is the example I used to tell clients about how if your organization is big enough, publicly visible enough and open to being in the news/or a case study) and has great lawyers, you can probably get Microsoft licensing for essentially "free". And those "nearly free" licenses will increase over the next 2-5 years. The cynic in me says that Germany did this to get better bargaining leverage with Microsoft... (Apparently they are cycling around back again, over the last couple years trying to transition away from Microsoft for some states/groups/municipalities within Germany)
• DoingIsLearning 5y ago
  It was the city of Munich [0], not the entirety of Germany. I think there is also Vicenza in Italy where the municipality is using Zorin Os. [1] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux [1] https://itsfoss.com/vicenza-windows-zorin/ https://itsfoss.com/vicenza-windows-zorin/
• hulitu 5y ago
  > Didn't Germany at one point, try to do this? I'm not sure if they still are using Linux. Well Gates made a "visit" in Münich to "convince" them that windows is better.