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UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead (itsfoss.com)
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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That solution is CryptPad

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Dang, like, would it have killed someone to put it in the title of the article?

Thanks, bud.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Honestly, it boggles my mind that governments use proprietary software when an open source alternative is available. Why waste people's money for something that gets enshittified a little later, anyway?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The article is from May; has anything important related to this happened in the last few days, or why are you posting this now?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

This account crossposts from lemmy.ml

This is the origin of the crosspost: https://lemmy.ml/post/39702656

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

The points, I'm guessing...

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

at least for one of their recent initiatives.

Oh and it's for the 'UN Open Source Principles initiative'.

Kinda makes it seem like this is a 'pr' move rather than an actual institutional change, intended for a single event?

Although the initiative itself could very well bring that about.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well they got spurned by Google pretty badly already which is why this is even on the table now

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

We all get spurned by Google and Meta and Microsoft on an ongoing basis for the last 20 years but no one ever actually does anything about it.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I hope they stick with it.