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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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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nope, not Germany. The city of Munich, and it was rolled back because a politician took Microsoft bribes and drank the Microsoft snake oil.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently they are back on the Linux train as of 2020, so thats good news.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Until the next corrupt politician... but yeah, let's hope Linux stays, this time around.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's done EU wide, it'll take a lot more than a corrupt politician to reverse it

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if I can spare that much... Wait a second! Nessy, when did you get a Lemmy account?!

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

National governments should be harder to bribe than local ones, at least. Also harder to get them to adopt it in the first place though.

Should be, but I am afraid that our system encourages corrupt people to seek positions of power.