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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 1 week 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] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've always said governments and public institutions funded by taxpayers should use FLOSS and not be beholden to private companies. Any shortcomings or unfulfilled needs in Linux and FLOSS software would quickly be dealt with once large organizations like these started using it as the default, since they could easily fund whatever features or fixes are needed for significantly less money than they pay for proprietary software (especially now that these days they're forking over annual subscriptions), and thus they'd also have much more control over the making sure the software meets their needs.

It seems like a no-brainer to me. Maybe it wasn't in the earlier days of Linux but not for the last decade or so.

[–] GhiLA 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Total proprietary capitalist hellscape

Foss: "lol, we don't need you, we have lin-

ENTER: new global Ai standards that depend on proprietary blobs that only work on nvidia hardware and Windows.

Foss: "w-we don't need Ai."

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BROWSER TO USE-

Foss: "STOP IT!"

UNSUPPORTED

WE SEE YOUR PHONE

Foss: "you wouldn't..."

UNSUPPORTED