Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]
MS didn’t just give Munich a better deal, they actively went out of their way to sabotage this perfectly feasable & already working project in several ways.
And iirc similar things happened in other places in Germany / EU.
I hope they keep it this time, I’m tired of seeing these, and then “oh, MS gave us a great deal soooo”
LiMux
MS didn’t just give Munich a better deal, they actively went out of their way to sabotage this perfectly feasable & already working project in several ways.
And iirc similar things happened in other places in Germany / EU.
I think they were always on a smaller scale. With this one, I’m somewhat hopeful that it’ll stick, and be a long term effort.
It’s the whole country this time, and Microsoft’s position has changed a lot. 👍