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A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe (www.europarl.europa.eu)
submitted 13 hours ago by erin@social.sidh.bzh to c/linux@programming.dev
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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 18 points 12 hours ago (19 children)

Double edged sword. Forced adoption of a shitty distro, or a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all.

From memory, Germany did this many years ago, and ended up rolling it back?

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

afaik Bayern rolled back to Windows after some Microsoft "lobbying"

[–] Successful_Try543 7 points 7 hours ago

Precisely the city of Munich had its LiMux system.

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