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German state of Schleswig-Holstein planning to switch 25,000 of its PCs to Linux and LibreOffice
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2021
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:D This is excellent news!
(I'm especially pleased to read that they're putting open source software into education : great move!)
If kids are taught in schools that it's okay to not just use one single type of word processor that's proprietary, that's a great thing!
I think it'll be more significant than that : people like to use the tools they're used to... If they've grown up using open source software, then that will be their norm. They will also realise that there's really no reason to pay for proprietary systems and apps. And that's a huge blow to Micro$oft, Adobe, et al.