Switzerland: Crowdfund this project and you’ll be inundated with donors desperate to stop using outlook and teams worldwide. Project can fund itself.
I’d love for them to give some of the saved licensing money to the FOSS projects. After all they’re now relying on them.
On the plus side, this’ll be a reinvestment of tech knowledge because people get lazy with Windows.
Good news, it’s time to open source
Money well spent. It’d be cheaper to go back to receipt books, filing cabinets and snail mail now that the american tech bullshit has continually shown it’s true colours.
That’s pretty cheap, TBH.
Shit a decent sized org pays that much in licensing to use it.
Its only an experiment of the Bundeskanzlei with 3000 real employees. I am very hopeful, I heard an Interview with the one responsible, he seems very eager to really test it and give it a good chance, but also is aware of the everyday Susi in accounting who maybe isnt going to switch easily from Word to LibreOffice
Open-source decentralized alternatives are good for distributing the concentrated power
I’ve met individuals willing to pay $11 million to stop using teams.
WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED TEAMS EMAIL ME BITCH
Instant messaging is nice, but we could just run an IRC server for that.
Teams does much more than just messaging. The problem is that no one in the world wants to use any of those other features because they’re absolute trash. But they’re smashed in there and poorly implemented anyway.
$11 million dollars is pocket change to a national government. Not ideal, but as a project to end reliance on a US entity, it’s an investment in the future.
And it’s much cheaper than paying Microsoft.
And very importantly, the more big organisations switch to open alternatives, the more investment those alternatives get, meaning more development. Eventually they’ll catch up in terms of usability and featureset.
It says how much it costs but how much will be saved in the end?
A moral and strategic imperative.
Yeah, I can see the point. Moving away from Microsoft sounds good in theory, but actually replacing everything without causing problems is probably the hard part
The tech is ready, the training of people is the hard part.
Partly. There is a lot of specialized software out there, which links into Microsoft Office in some way. Replacing all of those connections can be really hard.
Yeah, that’s probably the biggest challenge. It’s not just replacing the main apps it’s all those smaller integrations and workflows people rely on every day
Exactly. The technology itself is probably the easier part. Getting people comfortable with a completely different workflow is where things can get complicated
Honestly, for Office, Outlook and Teams you can find alternatives. But in the identity field (Entra), it gets more complicated. No all-in-one replacement options out there that cover everything Entra does, so you end up having to stitch together a bunch of stuff.
I’m all for ditching closed services, especially for governments, but there will be a couple of difficult years before investment in open-source software produce solutions that can match. So, no better time than the present, eh?
This comes up at my job a lot. We end up not doing things because the staff whine about it. No where else have I worked have I seen such whining. It’s your fucking job. You can use whatever you want on your home computer. Now stop SSH’ing into production and fucking use source control.
It’s really a problem of poor management , here.
