'Complete digital sovereignty' ... sounds familiar
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions. was made yesterday by the state's Minister-President Daniel Gunther, who has served in that position since 2017. According to a translated version of the announcement, independence was a key motivation for switching to open source software.
The transition has been in the works for some time, and it looks to be well ahead of schedule. The then-digital minister for the state, Jan Philipp Albrecht, said in 2021 that Schleswig-Holstein would just be switching to. There was no date in place at all for the replacement of Windows 10, and there were multiple Linux distros under consideration.
Mike Saunders, who does community outreach at The Document Foundation, told us"the transition to LibreOffice is planned as 'very short term' and will be mandatory. It is one of six 'columns'of a larger and longer-term transition to free and open source software, including Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird, open source alternative to Active Directory etc.
"LiMux faced some technical challenges at first, but by 2017 Karl-Heinz Schneider said: 'We are not aware of any large technical problems with LiMux and LibreOffice ... We don't see any urgent technical reasons to return to Windows and Microsoft Office'."While Schleswig-Holstein has ostensibly made lots of progress and is talking a big game, we've seen a similar scenario play out before in two different German states.
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