My home state of Bavaria is planning to spend 1 billion Euros in the next five years on Microsoft products. One fucking billion Euros!
Meanwhile, the state of Schleswig Holstein has been transitioning to open source software and estimates that it will save them around 15 million Euros a year.
Maybe it's time to move. People up North seem to be smarter.
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@82mhz/115722686490910352
In my experience, 95% of the situations I follow could transition to totally open-source solutions without major problems. Some others could do so by implementing a progressive plan.
The limitation is almost always human: people accustomed to working in a certain way for years, and a lack of willingness and commitment to change, even minimal change. If in private sectors, this happens under the "threat" of a drop in productivity. If in public sectors, under the threat of severe inefficiencies.
I saw a local election won (in part) thanks to a promise not to change anything.
Inertia, at times, causes incalculable damage.
