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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)
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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] 24 points 2 months ago (52 children)

Double edged sword. Forced adoption of a shitty distro, or a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all.

From memory, Germany did this many years ago, and ended up rolling it back?

[–] Deckweiss 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

afaik Bayern rolled back to Windows after some Microsoft "lobbying"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Precisely the city of Munich had its LiMux system.

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