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France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs (www.techradar.com)

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Frances switchted to Linux on 2.5 million PCs

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly if I had one wish is that government would be banned for saying any rental agreement was an investment.

It's so frustrating, and brings me hope to see it change, that RnD and infrastructure investment funds got put into software rental agreement for windows and VMware and more recently into proprietary Cloud ecosystems.

Like you own nothing from that. That money is gone from the public good. It's not an investment. I didn't invest in an apartment, I rented, I don't have any value left from that agreement I had my wants and needs temporally satisfied.

That is just the constant issue these people put in the public trust are learning but have to held to task to.