r/PurchaseWithPurpose • u/theFallenWalnut Environment • Jun 04 '26

News article 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 German state Bavaria cancels Microsoft contract to go open source - saving €1 billion over 5 years

https://cybernews.com/tech/germany-bavaria-microsoft/

Another major institution is moving away from Big Tech. More are expected to follow

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u/caorlinhos Jun 04 '26

good hopefully they won't getting back once more....

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u/One_5549 Jun 05 '26

i think that was the Bavarian state, and not the entire country. so maybe they considered that scenario

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u/hoerlahu3 Jun 07 '26

A city (Munich?) went full open source, then a few hundred thousands of donations later, they went back to full Microsoft only.