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Ten years ago, this would have been major news. But today? Somehow, that seems like it's not even worthy of a news item anymore these days. So many governments
by swombat 14y ago
Ten years ago, this would have been major news. But today?
Somehow, that seems like it's not even worthy of a news item anymore these days. So many governments and other similar organisations seem to have done this that it seems like a no-brainer, almost. It's great to see more (particularly Switzerland) doing this, but the real victory here is that this is no longer a major news item, but business as usual.
- Nux 14y agoIt's still very big news, unfortunately. There aren't that many that have switched; the majority of govs around the world are still filling Micro$oft's pockets.
- biot 14y agoWhat if they used Linux and were filling RedHat's pockets via support contracts? Would you adopt a "Red$Hat" spelling convention? The "filling pockets" comment indicates that either you think making money is bad, or you have some other argument you should have made instead.
- mtgx 14y agoI think the adoption of open source for national and local governments worldwide is still very much into single digits - low single digits, at best. Until we get like at least 30%-40% of world's institutions to switch to open source, I think this is still very much news, and it encourages others to think about it, too. And 10 years ago this probably wasn't even "news" because nobody cared about this. This is what's great about an economic crisis, too. When times are "good" people don't really care about switching to something else, if the status quo "works", but when it's an economic crisis, the adoption of cheaper disruptive technologies accelerates, and that's one of the "benefits" of an economic crisis - trimming down the fat, increasing efficiency, and switching from the incumbent technology to the disruptive one at the time.