2026-04-10 13:48 UTC
@gregprice@sfba.social @kevinrns@mstdn.social @Di4na@hachyderm.io @linuxiac@mastodon.social Your explanation makes way more sense. The effort to formulate a government wide implementation plan to replace Windows with Linux on all desktop computers would probably take considerably longer than the time being given. Tossing together some upper level "plan" to reduce cost though...probably achievable.
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@gregprice@sfba.social 2026-04-10 19:09
@crazyeddie @kevinrns @Di4na @linuxiac Yeah. It's not mostly about costs, though: the catchphrase is "digital sovereignty", meaning not being subject to foreign control. Down at the end, a minister is quoted saying: "We must decouple ourselves from American tools and take back control of our digital destiny. … We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, and our strategic decisions depend on solutions of which we don't control the rules, nor the rates, nor the evolution, nor the risks." So although it's possible (even likely) that cost savings help the medicine go down, those aren't the main objective.