The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

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    8 days ago

    Thats the problem though, there are near infinite ways for someone along the way to completely fuck it up, and very few ways to get it right. And security concerns are almost always going to make the distro worse for the users.

    And even if it was left to IT professionals, they are just as capable of making it a mess on their own.

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      We could say that about every single general decision that anyone in the world has ever made. It’s a truism which tells us almost nothing about this situation.

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        IT professionals only get a say when the C-suite accepts that IT is a necessity, not a burden. This is extremely uncommon.

        Working in enterprise IT sucks. I’ve had jobs where we had to have CFO approval to buy a bag of zipties (the request was denied, BTW)