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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Norwegian government loves windows, so yea, I really doubt it. (by it, I mean the government using Ubuntu thing)

Source: I used to work for the Norwegian government

edit: added explanation to "it", so not to be as confusing to what I refered to.