Gregory's ServerWow, 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/
@tarakiyee about 2300 with a rough back-of-envelope calculation 😎
@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.