Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
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Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
This attitude is plainly wrong. If you use Linux because it is free as "free of charge" then you are missing a point. You should use it because it is open.
I would even say that they should contribute the same amount of money to organisations that actually develop a software that they are going to use. Because they will certainly need support and security patches and this will never be free
As the article notes they are planning to invest 9 million euros in the transition, so they clearly don't expect it to be "free of cost." The difference is paying 15 million euros to license some proprietary American product, versus investing 9 million euros in the free software world.
But that will convince nobody to also switch
According to this Interview from 2021 costs are ultimately expected to be roughly the same. Also it can be argued that having Support and security patches for the Software is more or less required by law if you intend to use it in (German) public Service.
The quote from the article would be this
And I would agree with their reasoning that they get more for their money than with Windows.