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Good news: the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move its 30,000 PCs to #GNULinux, LibreOffice, and other #freesoftware because they want to improve digital #sovereignty in the state administration. https://u.fsf.org/43o #government

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#freesoftware #Government #sovereignty #gnulinux
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Bill Zaumen
Bill Zaumen
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As an historical note, given the adoption of LibreOffice by a German state, LibreOffice originated from OpenOffice, which in turn came from a proprietary program named StarOffice that was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which released it as open source. The original StarOffice had a terrible user interface that was replaced over time. Curiously, the original software was developed in Germany.
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