International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
Because Microsoft blocked chief prosecutor Karim Khan account, the ICC is moving away from Microsoft to Open Desk.
For anyone wondering: openDesk, the solution they're using, wasn't developed from the ground up. It contains standard open source tools like Nextcloud, Matrix and Collabora.
It’s sort of bothers me that government business will be handled in the cloud of some random company. Sure, a lot of these things are open source but… Do we get to compare checksums?
It's not a random company. OpenDesk is produced (maintained? Developed? Packaged?) by ZenDiS. ZenDiS is a company that belongs 100% to the german government. It's not a ministry, but a company. Kind of like the german railways (DB).
They'd be doing an enterprise install but here's the gitlab readme for the open desk community edition and with links for a Kubernetes installation:
https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk/
This is fantastic! First time I hear about this project!