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_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	repelsteeltje 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From what I heard about NGI-zero, another government sponsorship project (1), the problem so far is primarily finding the projects that need sponsorship. (1) https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/
	▲	skavi 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		doesn’t really feel like that much tbh

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dbolgheroni an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think that cost is what is mostly driving the move from Windows nowadays.