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  OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice  and Linux Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2025-07-01 21:50 +0200
    Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for  OnlyOffice and Linux Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2025-07-02 00:50 +0200
    Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for  OnlyOffice and Linux Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2025-07-02 04:20 +0200
      Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for  OnlyOffice and Linux Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2025-07-02 04:30 +0200

#280529 — OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

It appears US President Trump is good for Linux.

>From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice
and Linux - here's why",
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/>:

Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft
adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's
Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping
Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux,
OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL.
...

Training for 10,000 civil servants began in June 2025. Lyon's
migration to Linux is being closely watched as a potential blueprint
for other municipalities seeking greater digital independence and
sustainability. Who knows, the "Year of the Linux desktop" may finally
arrive not because people have grown tired of Windows' manifold
problems or Linux's advantages, but because governments are worried
about putting all their IT eggs in one US-based Microsoft basket.

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#280530 — Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

On 01.07.25 21:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> It appears US President Trump is good for Linux.
> 
>>From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice
> and Linux - here's why",
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/>:
> 
> (...) 

According to a statement published on the current German language 
Wikipedia site about OnlyOffice 
(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice), this surprises a lot! Not 
because of the code quality, but because of the current political 
affairs. More and more other public entities do go for Linux, but to my 
knowledge are not opting for OnlyOffice. This is the first time I hear 
about OnlyOffice having been chosen to become part of such public entity 
project.

Translation of the relevant paragraph of the Wikipedia article by 
Deepl.com :
"The ONLYOFFICE project was developed by the company Ascensio System SIA 
in Russia, but the IT company is based in Riga, Latvia, where it is 
majority-owned by Russians and subject to the European sanctions regime 
against Russia."

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#280531 — Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It appears US President Trump is good for Linux.
>
> >From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice
> and Linux - here's why",
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/>:
>
> Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft
> adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's
> Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping
> Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux,
> OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL.
> ...
>
> Training for 10,000 civil servants began in June 2025. Lyon's
> migration to Linux is being closely watched as a potential blueprint
> for other municipalities seeking greater digital independence and
> sustainability. Who knows, the "Year of the Linux desktop" may finally
> arrive not because people have grown tired of Windows' manifold
> problems or Linux's advantages, but because governments are worried
> about putting all their IT eggs in one US-based Microsoft basket.
>

France's Military moved from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice back
years ago. Hopefully more government organizations will make the move.

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#280532 — Re: OT: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux

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On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM Timothy M Butterworth <
timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It appears US President Trump is good for Linux.
> >
> > >From "This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice
> > and Linux - here's why",
> > <
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-city-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-onlyoffice-and-linux-heres-why/
>:
> >
> > Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft
> > adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's
> > Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping
> > Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux,
> > OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL.
> > ...
> >
> > Training for 10,000 civil servants began in June 2025. Lyon's
> > migration to Linux is being closely watched as a potential blueprint
> > for other municipalities seeking greater digital independence and
> > sustainability. Who knows, the "Year of the Linux desktop" may finally
> > arrive not because people have grown tired of Windows' manifold
> > problems or Linux's advantages, but because governments are worried
> > about putting all their IT eggs in one US-based Microsoft basket.
> >
>
> France's Military moved from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice back
> years ago. Hopefully more government organizations will make the move.

LibreOffice has been making inroads into a lot of public sector
organizations. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations



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