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[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 88 points 3 months ago

Germany and ping ponging between proprietary and free software every 2 years, name a better duo

[-] NafiTheBear@pawb.social 80 points 3 months ago

It is like... Each time we showed how well you can live with open source, Microsoft comes around with an even bigger coffin of lobby money.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 14 points 3 months ago

The worst thing in that is the amount of money and human time it must take just to migrate everything. People only looking at the bottom line is the bane of IT...

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

It's not just lobbying. The expertise to build and certify what Microsoft did for government cloud is expensive and rare. Open source still needs a third party to provide that level of support, because the documentation is more important than the technical capabilities.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 11 points 3 months ago

Hire any competent Linux sys tech?

[-] NafiTheBear@pawb.social 10 points 3 months ago

This is a valid mention and I agree, but I also have to say that there are companies like the nextcloud corp itself who do offer that level of expertise and are German based and would use the money to improve nextcloud, which is open source, whereas we don't know how much of the money that Microsoft takes goes into the open source project.

[-] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

Thing is the authorities are told to use their own IT hoster. This dumbsack just - again - took money from extern.

It was also, internally, conducted that a third party governing an open-source stack ia cheaper then redmond.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 3 months ago

Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on Software. At least, not any more. Open Source is the way to go, and there are plenty of Open Source consulting firms out there. Red Hat, Nextcloud, Redpill Linpro, etc.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

They have a near monopoly on compliance though which is the draw of government cloud. It's a totally different product from their commercial offerings. The software portion isn't really a factor, it's the paperwork and audit results.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Microsoft is a bunch of corporate fascist cunts just like the rest of the silicon valley and those fuckers should all die out. Sadly they won't. Thank you fucking traitor scum Scholz for showing your true shitface once more. Greetings from CumEx

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

coffin

Hehe. I think you mean suitcase but this works, too.

[-] NafiTheBear@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago

It was intentional play of words. :p

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