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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)
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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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[โ€“] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all

Depends what you mean. Locked down as in hidden from the public (I don't think that's legal anyways because of the GPL) would be bad. But locked down/limited from employees so that they can't bork the system is good, imo.

[โ€“] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The latter, and it is good from an organisational perspective, but its never a nice experience, and for many, this will be their first real experience with a Linux.

Right now Linux is "That nerd OS", if this goes badly, for millions it could change to "That OS they forced on us at work, where I can't XYZ"

Edit: on the GPL front, GPL doesn't require that you publish your code to everyone, just to the recipients of your binaries. And you only have to give it upon request. So they definitely could keep it somewhat under wraps if they wanted to. If they are smart, they'll follow the Munich model and stick to upstreaming any changes they make.