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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Adopting Linux is the best way to help ensure European sovereignty from maga meddling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

"I'd just like to interject for a moment..."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

PSA: You can support this petition even if you're not an EU resident

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I mean I'd be fine with BSD too. the point should be to force public institutions to use FOSS

[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That would be incredibly dumb. There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software (or sometimes the only option). Do you want to cripple public institutions by cutting them off entirely from proprietary software?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I think the point is to invest the money into the continued development and improvement of the foss software instead of giving the money to businesses who shield their proprietary codebase. In theory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software"

“hilariously”?
Examples?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Switzerland already did it. Its brilliant. Instead of the gov pouring money into proprietary solutions to meet their needs, they can fund FOSS and benefit from the same software being funded by other governments and companies too.

Proprietary is crippling. Its only chosen due to corruption

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Right now public institutions are paying for proprietary software. If they would invest the same money into FOSS, the FOSS option would not be behind proprietary software for long.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

FreeBSD is fine for servers I guess, but due that most server administrators know Linux better than any BSD, it's probably not going to be used much. BSD's also seem to be severely underfunded and the future of them seem vague.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure but nobody is petitioning for BSD desktops in the EU

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Sigh. Guess I'll have to do it

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