| ▲ | llarsson 2 hours ago |
| Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open, rather than just giving it all to Microsoft instead? |
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| ▲ | JustFinishedBSG an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Most of the cost (to the government) for Windows is "support" (in a very general sense) and that cost isn't disappearing with Linux. Especially since it is easier to find badly underpaid (and not particularly competent) Windows sysadmins than it is to find badly underpaid Linux admins. |
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| ▲ | fao_ an hour ago | parent [-] | | Ok but the license fees are, what, 50 quid? times say, 3k or 30k people? A 150k or 1.5m injection into the linux ecosystem to develop those would pay for a _lot_ of developers and a _lot_ of developer time. | | |
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| ▲ | ethbr1 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Imagine what can happen if the French and other governments would start pouring all the money into developing that further in the open You'd get a clusterfuck of a consensus spec, then they'd all get pissed off and develop their own incompatible versions anyway? Have you seen international projects without strong, centralized leadership? |
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| ▲ | kakacik an hour ago | parent [-] | | I have worked on things like PSD2, a well oiled government-led machine that just works. There are some dysfunctional things, then there are things working perfectly fine. You need to update your notes its not 90s. | | |
| ▲ | ethbr1 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Credit where credit is due, I think the strong centralization of the EU administration has made for better pan-European requirements and software. Sometimes the perfectness of the product is less important than the fact that there was one opinionated decider. |
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| ▲ | everdrive an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They'll start pulling Linux in a direction that suites them, which will potentially be at odds with the preferences of open source software enthusiasts. |
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| ▲ | dbdr an hour ago | parent [-] | | They might have an effect in the development of an office suite, possibly of a desktop environment or one specialized Linux distribution. Nobody will be forced to use those specific ones if they don't like them. There are plenty of options in the Linux world. |
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| ▲ | orochimaaru an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why haven’t they done it yet? I just think they’re incentivized enough for it. |
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| ▲ | sph an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Because until literally a year ago, the country that hosted Microsoft was one of France's most trusted allies. It takes time to find a suitable replacement to a global monopoly. | | |
| ▲ | pulse7 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It looks like the president - which was a businessman - will make a huge damage to American IT businesses. And IT stocks dominate the S&P 500, comprising roughly 1/3 of the index's total market capitalization... Good luck America! | |
| ▲ | gunsle 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Gotta love anti America Reddit tier fear mongering | | |
| ▲ | sph 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You know about Europe from Reddit subs. I know about Europe because that's where I live. We are not the same. |
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| ▲ | orochimaaru an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not really. I mean Trump has amped the rhetoric, but there have been no new laws passed. The privacy threats were always there. | | |
| ▲ | pjc50 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Law is irrelevant under the power of the gun; it was the threat to invade Greenland and the threat to leave NATO which have triggered this. (people keep saying things like "only Congress has the power to declare war"; that may be technically true, but a war declaration is a piece of paper, and practically the authorization of force is at the personal disposition of the President) |
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| ▲ | nixass an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > yet Best time to start doing it was yesterday.
Second best time to start doing it now.
They are at "now" step. |
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