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The crazy thing is that there is a model where governments / states / localities can migrate away from windows / Microsoft 365 ... and use part of the savings t
by username_my1 1mo ago
The crazy thing is that there is a model where governments / states / localities can migrate away from windows / Microsoft 365 ... and use part of the savings to fund open-source
if this was done across Europe we'd have sovereign open-source tech stack that is strong, well funded, and used by 10s of millions in the EU alone.
I have no idea why simple ideas like this are not persuade instead lots of incoherent, almost desperate distributed efforts are preferred.
ultimately I do believe that the bureaucrats in the EU are insanely disconnected from reality.
- eigenspace 1mo agoThe process you're describing is underway. Schleswig-Holstein, Munich, Leon, and the Austrian military all come to mind as recent examples of that sort of migration, and then pivoting savings into support contracts for open source. That process is super important yes, but what about cases where the relevant government bodies don't think the open source offering is ready yet for them? That is where the STF steps in, and gives funding to open source projects so that they can develop to a point where their software is ready for stable adoption by governments.
- username_my1 1mo agothis is what I mean by distributed, unconcentrated change. you will never make meaningful progress by those initiatives, there should be an echo of the US investment in data centers or china's investment in EVs. bigger, systematic, with immediate impact on the software / cloud stack in the EU first and globally.