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Petition on the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries
(www.europarl.europa.eu)
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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This is dumb. Hand over development to bureaucrats? create a set of guidelines and requirements, and allow distros to be certified, and fund development of distros that are being used.
It would make so much more sense to fund existing Linux development than making a new distro, tbh.
If the EU changed to Linux systems and donated the same amount back to open source development as they currently pay for Microsoft licenses, that would make a hell of a difference.
I don't know how it works with a frequently updating OS. In my mind beaurocrats can become asses about certifying one exact version they inspected and then making users afraid that open source community can inject the next version with viruses and they can't be sure it's okay too. Ah, and making each certification a paid service and somehow fucking it up.
In Russia there are like two projects of local Linux with custom wine that you can buy just like other software, certified by FSB for sensitive business (I believe them being the first pieces of software to get it except specific cryptographic stuff), but I feel the reason it's getting adopted and certified is because there are some nepotism and illegal connections with money not really changing pockets.
100% I can imagine they don't want to rely on third parties to develop their distribution, but, realistically, all the software that keeps the system going will be developed by "randos on the internet" still, so might as well hand over all the development effort to who has the knowledge already, while providing funds/grants