What did they do?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/france-just-kicked-microsoft-off-161724952.html
2.5 million gov devices will switch to linux
Made a bunch of noise about switching from American software to American software.
Open Source obviously belongs to everyone or no-one. But if you want to be pedantic about it, then Linux is from Finland.
No it doesn’t. That’s an extremely naive understanding of open source software.
Open source is not the same thing as public domain. Linux and GNU are very much copyrighted and remain the intellectual property of the Linux Foundation and the Free Software Foundation, both are American organizations. Do not mistake copyleft license terms for “heritage of all mankind.” No one alive today will see public domain Linux.
Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
edit: All I could find was this article about the Azure datacentres that they announced in 2021 finally opening, but I SWEAR I remember there being news reports around 2019-2020 of the Belgian government switching to Linux.
I’m not trying to say this is a conspiracy btw, I was living in Germany for school at the time and would watch the news to help with my German skills. This came up as an on-air discussion topic on whether Germany should do the same (which was shutdown pretty quickly LOL, apparently MS has a lot of influence in Munich).
If any Belgians have any insights or better search skills than me, they are welcome to correct me.
@sigmaklimgrindset @yodeljunkmanenvy
Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
Large cardboard boxes full of money were found in offices at that time.
In Germany microsoft made a deal to move its head office to München if LiMux was killed. There were probably other “incentives” as münchen ist in Amigo Land = corruption is rife.
I am soo curious which ditro, DE will they use
No standard, no custom government specific distro designed for the use case and ensuring stability and consistency… every department can choose their own.
So similar fragmentation that underpins the issues Linux has with consumer confusion when trying to switch. There are too many options all with weird quirks that isn’t an issue for technical people, but is impossible for the average person to wade through to find good options for them.
Maybe they’ll specify more in the future, but at the moment it looking more like expecting each large government department to make fundamental decisions on their core IT infrastructure on their own, as opposed to a dedicated and specialized team with experience.
I’ll bet money they’ll either chose Fedora, Ubuntu, or some custom distro.
Fedora makes the most sense to me. But I can see how a cautious bunch might go for the perceived safety of Ubuntu.
Would a government choose Fedora rather than Red Hat?
@captain_aggravated @chunkystyles
Would a government choose Fedora rather than Red Hat?
Better neither, The Red hat owner IBM has given trump millions and bowed to anti DEI policys.
Debian or Debian based is a far better choice.
Possibly something similar to NixOS: https://www.frandroid.com/os/gnu-linux/3062047_adieu-windows-securix-et-bureautix-le-linux-de-letat-aux-noms-dirreductibles-gaulois
from an IT perspective NixOS would be VERY easy for them to setup. pretty much clone the same configuration across all computers and you’re good to go. PLUS if they installed comma with it would make the user experience easy. just have to teach people to open a terminal and type “, firefox” and you’re good to go. keeps things clean. don’t have to worry about people installing stuff that could potentially break their system as you would just lock down the nix configuration.
