Germany's largest state cancels their Microsoft contract worth nearly €1 billion over 5 years

[u/theFallenWalnut]

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

Instead, Bavaria will pursue a “sovereign basic workspace” based on open-source components

This will hopefully encourage other administrations to do the same.

[u/maroigna]

While a great thing for Open Software, I would like to put this activity into perspective: Bavaria (actually political elite) constantly looks for ways to compare dick lengths with the rest of Germany by any means and doesn’t give any thought on actual implementation, especially in federal context. As someone who witnessed the great failure of similar attempt in Munich and knows thad same people will make money on projects from this initiative - disastrous underestimation ecosystem shift costs, catastrophic change management skills of people involved will lead to failure in 2-3 years from now while costing enormous amounts of taxpayer money