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Wow, the German government spends 197.7 million euro on Microsoft licenses. Think how many open source developers you can pay with that much money. https://www.heise.de/news/Bund-Lizenzkosten-fuer-Microsoft-auf-hohem-Niveau-insgesamt-neuer-Rekord-9744319.html I wish this article came out before I wrote this blog post: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/ 13 comments
@tarakiyee yeah or croissant and baguette... Because everyone no you just have to paid a random open source dev to replace Microsoft  @tarakiyee @fasnix I think this without the "lower units" like the states, districts, cities, towns, etc. @tarakiyee This is for the Federation only, not including the federal states. And it is only what is spend for MS. See https://taz.de/Kritik-an-Ausgaben-des-Bundes/!6011645/ and https://www.heise.de/news/Bund-Lizenzkosten-fuer-Microsoft-auf-hohem-Niveau-insgesamt-neuer-Rekord-9744319.html @tarakiyee I agree that open source should be prioritized on every government level. But roughly 200 million a year is much lower than I would have thought. Especially since we have about half a million people working directly for the federal government and it's agencies and most in Microsoft based environments. In the total workplace costs (labor, services, facilities, enegry etc.), this isn't really such a big item. @PaGn that's still 400 euros just in licenses per employee going to one company, and I would bet the vast majority only need essential productivity tools. It's not sustainable particularly when you consider that most government departments are strapped for budget and could use that money elsewhere.  @tarakiyee Danish municipal authorities spent just over 72 million euros on Microsoft in 2023... and Denmark is just 5.9 million people. People with authority have been speaking the word LibreOffice with increasing frequency... @tarakiyee about 1400? Assuming some extra costs in addition to the salary. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of investing that money in open source, but I honestly wouldn’t want to have to manage that from the administrative side.. @tarakiyee Open source doesn’t work in corporates. And countries are a sort of corporate. On top of that, they need to use what most people use, and most people use MS Office. |
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@tarakiyee holy cow. That amount is equivalent to a lot of full-time hackers.