5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.
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This is great, But using Microsoft Windows should be illegal for public services in EU.
We can no longer allow ourselves to depend on American IT infrastructure.
Public Money should result in public code.
It can't be, that our public money lands as profits in non European companies.
That should be a given, imho
I 100% agree, but some would consider that a matter of ideology.
The other point about dependency on USA when they are acting with hostility is more pragmatic.
99% of people don't understand all the reason why open source is better for public services, except if we can say it's cheaper. That's the one point they understand, and the one point Microsoft has been attacking most with their propaganda against open source.
Go away with your common sense!
I really hope GNU/Linux can run on old Fax machines and the printing-out-emails workflow works smoothly.
In before Microsoft break out the FUD tactics and a year or two of cheap licenses.
Gates is already boarding the jet.