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7 European Governments That Are Ditching Microsoft for Open-Source Alternatives

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Map from 1975 😄
- I'd say 90s - no USSR but Yugoslavia is still on the map
  
  The USSR is on the map - that big greenish thing in the east ...
Great initiative, terrible AI-written article with clickbait Elon ads.
Why is there still yogoslavia and the GDR on the map
Most of these listicle items are a decade old, at least the Munich one has failed. I'd also be surprised if the GDR picturesd in that map ditched Microsoft... I see so many accounts peddle their stupid AI aggregators here, it's getting annoying.
- I'm not sure Munich can be regarded as a failure. MS corrupted the test case in every way they could. They couldn't afford it to be seen as successful.
  https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/
  Now it's not just cost but American can be seen as a reliable partner. Let anyone an American corporation.
  
  I totally agree and I'm not saying FOSS is useless, quite the contrary. My only point was that articles like the above make it easy to frame the FOSS-hype as a nothingburger by being poorly researched, which is not what the movement needs.

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