The EU is taking Musk’s approach to business: promise everything, deliver nothing
You do realise that this was Denmark, right? The EU probably had very little (ie nothing) do do with this decision at all. This is why.
Damn. They forgot the whole Greenland thing real fast.
Plus, Microsoft products are shitty. What the hell
No doubt Microsoft bribed the right people to achieve this outcome
I doubt it. Knowing the Danish government it is a combination of this project being slightly more expensive than Microslop, combined with that cost not translating into enough political goodwill from the voters (Danish voters are largely very ignorant or at the very least indifferent to questions of open source, digital privacy and all that stuff).
Danish voters are largely very ignorant or at the very least indifferent to questions of open source, digital privacy and all that stuff
Remember a time when politics and media did an actual job in explaining context? Something like “selling our private data to and making us dependent on companies in a country threatening to annex Greenland is insanely stupid”…
Bad move, I bet they will regret it in the future.
Free software, that multiple suppliers, local suppliers, can provide, fix and maintain, is the only viable path for sovereign governments.
they=Denmark or they=the people getting paid to sell out to the US as usual?
As there are barely any consequences for open corruption nowdays I’m pretty sure the latter will not have any reason for regrets.
… in Denmark, yes? I feel like that’s an important part of this?
well, apparently every European country needs to prompte its own Microsoft Office competitor. In germany, wie habe just startend with openDesk Suite 😅
In the end it is more important that the file you produce could be read (correctly) by someone else than that both use the same Office.
that’s what pdf’s are for
Dropped as in “released” or as in “stopped attempting to create”?
The latter:
The Ministry of Digitization has quietly put its pilot project with an alternative to Microsoft Office in the grave.
Dropped as in no longer trying to replace MSOffice with Collabra.
Breaking: ‘Digitization Ministry’ changes name to ‘Ministry of Digitization’ for 5 minutes before deciding to switch to Linux.
New ministry name to be decided after issues with sound drivers are resolved
