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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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Every IT project of German authorities failed in the last two decades. So this is a bad news because the project will fail too and they will say it was because Open Source does not work.
Jan Philipp Albrecht notes of the Munich failure: “The main problem there was that the employees weren’t taken along enough. We do better. We are planning long transition phases with parallel use, and we’re introducing open source step-by-step when the departments are ready. With this, we also create the reason for further introduction, because people can see that it works.”
https://fossforce.com/2021/11/a-german-state-is-saying-goodbye-windows-hello-linux/
It will depend on people wanting to use it, but, imo, governments and government agencies ought to be using, and suggesting that others use, open technologies.
Somewhere I heard that the project was suffocated by bureaucracy, whether intentionally or not I don't know. But I can imagine that the lobbying of Microsoft supported bureaucratic behaviour. I wish them all the best, but the history of governmental IT projects is a story of failure.