Great, now Germany gets slapped with additional 10% tariffs, because of penguins.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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1 year (and a few days) old article. How did this turn out?
found this update from 1 month ago:
https://euro-stack.com/blog/2025/3/schleswig-holstein-open-source-digital-sovereignty
what the actual amount of progress is seems to be buried under bureaucracy-speak but I got 3 useful sentences out of it so far:
Configuration via group policies
MS Office can remain installed in parallel, until October 2025
Goals for october 2025: LibreOffice should be the sole standard office software on around 70% of the state administration's IT workstations
so to me it seems they're currently slowly doing a MS office -> LibreOffice transfer, but they're still all using windows (as the use of "group policy" implies)
Didn't they do this once before, like early 2000's?
That was the city of Munich. It was sold as a success in creating freedom and saving millions, but they still went back to Microsoft.
According to the Wikipedia article they changed their mind and decided to stay on LiMux.
I don't know where you're getting that. The German article says the city government said they'd keep LiMux, but despite that statement all PCs got Windows instead.
Schleswig-Holstein therefore follows the general strategy to move towards an open source driven administration. In fact, several federn institution already migrated to the openDesk administration bundle (https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/). Great!
Is this the year of the Linux desktop?
No.
Let's hope they are successfull and let others migrate as well. The more migrate, the less likelier a failure is