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Europe's "Manhattan Project" Should be Abandoning Microsoft, Moving Everything to Free (Libre) Software

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 14, 2024

Manhattan

TODAY or this weekend in Denmark there's some press coverage (Danish, but automated translation is coherent enough) about dumping Microsoft.

At the moment, Microsoft draws much of its budget from taxpayers, i.e. from the public sector. Consider what this Microsoft-sponsored site said a couple of days ago: "GSA closes in on enterprisewide software deal with Microsoft" (graft)

At the moment the Microsoft money (drawn from taxpayers) is being used to harass critics of Microsoft (we've responded accordingly [1, 2]) and only hours ago Mr. Oliva from the FSF said, "is it just me imagining patterns, or there are coordinated attacks underway against the FSF in social media ATM?"

Well, Microsoft and Microsofters are under a lot of stress at the moment because they lose market share, contracts, and staff (mass layoffs every month this year). The last thing Microsoft wants to see right now is this in the news:

The government wants to free the public sector from Microsoft

GNU/Linux and ChromeOS are measured at over 5% right now in Denmark. The Danish people want change (see more links below). A lot of Europe looks more or less the same, which is why Android increasingly dominates (at the expense of Windows) and GNU/Linux steadily gains.

We too reap the benefits of these gains. The gemini.tuxmachines.org Gemini capsule (GNU/Linux news!) is now #1 again in the capsules' (by size) list at Lupa only 2 years after it was born despite more and more capsules going live over time. This shows growing interest not only in Gemini Protocol but also in GNU/Linux.

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