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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 13 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

FreeBSD is fine for servers I guess, but due that most server administrators know Linux better than any BSD, it's probably not going to be used much. BSD's also seem to be severely underfunded and the future of them seem vague.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sure but nobody is petitioning for BSD desktops in the EU

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 17 hours ago

Sigh. Guess I'll have to do it

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -5 points 17 hours ago (4 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?

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

Right now public institutions are paying for proprietary software. If they would invest the same money into FOSS, the FOSS option would not be behind proprietary software for long.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 10 points 15 hours 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 6 points 16 hours 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@beehaw.org 4 points 16 hours ago

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

  1. “hilariously”?
  2. Examples?