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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nope, not Germany. The city of Munich, and it was rolled back because a politician took Microsoft bribes and drank the Microsoft snake oil.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently they are back on the Linux train as of 2020, so thats good news.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Until the next corrupt politician... but yeah, let's hope Linux stays, this time around.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it's done EU wide, it'll take a lot more than a corrupt politician to reverse it

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know if I can spare that much... Wait a second! Nessy, when did you get a Lemmy account?!

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

National governments should be harder to bribe than local ones, at least. Also harder to get them to adopt it in the first place though.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Should be, but I am afraid that our system encourages corrupt people to seek positions of power.