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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean I'd be fine with BSD too. the point should be to force public institutions to use FOSS

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure but nobody is petitioning for BSD desktops in the EU

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

Sigh. Guess I'll have to do it

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That would be incredibly dumb. There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software (or sometimes the only option). Do you want to cripple public institutions by cutting them off entirely from proprietary software?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

I think the point is to invest the money into the continued development and improvement of the foss software instead of giving the money to businesses who shield their proprietary codebase. In theory.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 12 points 2 months ago

Switzerland already did it. Its brilliant. Instead of the gov pouring money into proprietary solutions to meet their needs, they can fund FOSS and benefit from the same software being funded by other governments and companies too.

Proprietary is crippling. Its only chosen due to corruption

[–] arsCynic 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software"

  1. “hilariously”?
  2. Examples?
[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

CAD, CAM, EDA, audio/video production (NLVEs, DAWs, synthesisers etc.).

There are open source options sometimes, but they are all faaar behind the commercial options. No fiscally sane business or government department would use them (unless they only need a small job, or are quite masochistic).