On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM Timothy M Butterworth < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It appears US President Trump is good for Linux. > > > > >From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice > > and Linux - here's why", > > < https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/ >: > > > > Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft > > adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's > > Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping > > Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, > > OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL. > > ... > > > > Training for 10,000 civil servants began in June 2025. Lyon's > > migration to Linux is being closely watched as a potential blueprint > > for other municipalities seeking greater digital independence and > > sustainability. Who knows, the "Year of the Linux desktop" may finally > > arrive not because people have grown tired of Windows' manifold > > problems or Linux's advantages, but because governments are worried > > about putting all their IT eggs in one US-based Microsoft basket. > > > > France's Military moved from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice back > years ago. Hopefully more government organizations will make the move.
LibreOffice has been making inroads into a lot of public sector organizations. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
