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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoOpensource@programming.dev•Germany: Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle
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    16 days ago

    If they moved it to Kiel, I don’t know what would happen to Munich and their Microsoft policy. One can only hope the federal politicians aren’t as corrupt as the ones in Munich, but they are just people too.

    Nearly every government in Europe is beholden to Microsoft. There was a news article recently about how only one single municipality in the Netherlands hosted their own services on their own hardware. If Germany, the probably least digitally progressive country in the EU, suddenly decides to do more than just talk about opensource and actually use it across all government agencies, it would be a huge signal.

    Only time will tell. Trump better keep beating his great big drum to keep the pro-opensource voices strong. Without it, it would be back to business in no time.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoOpensource@programming.dev•Germany: Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle
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    16 days ago

    Because reports say “Germany” when they talk about some town in the middle of a rape seed field nobody’s heard of adopting Linux. Everyone’s heard of Limux, the distro for Munich, that was killed by the Christian conservatives for sweet sweet Microsoft money.

    I can understand your scepticism, Germany is not the country of innovation and progress these days. However, let’s not spread fake news about “Germany wanting Linux for a decade”. It simply isn’t true. There hasn’t been an official statement like this from the federal digital minister… ever. At least not that I can find. That this comes from a Christian democrat is even more astounding.

    Whether it will result in anything (he just wants to “raise awareness”) and be tabled as soon as this invitation to be lobbied by GAFAM is taken up, who knows. The Christian democrats have promised 100% fiber internet for a decade too and any trip through Germany has always been a lesson in patient with the internet. Hell, rice fields in fucking Vietnam and the middle of the goddamn jungle in South America have had better internet that in the middle of large German cities.

    At least, if it’s said by the digital minister of Germany, there’s a possibility other European countries will listen and actually do more than Germany promised.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.world•My experience with Canonical's interview processEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I assumed this was going to be a negative article because my experience with canonical was equally disappointing. It only took me one go to drop it though. The pseudo-scientific questions in the online assessment got me so annoyed I was just cursing by the time it was over. Companies with this kind of selection process do not deserve the talent they get.

    Shuttleworth’s involvement in the recruitment process explains why Ubuntu is such an annoying operating system to deal with. He probably gets involved in wrong places all the time. There likely is some kind of vision, but the dude won’t listen to critique, and surrounds himself with yes-men.

    Redhat was… not as bad, but there’s something equally annoying about yet another opensource company deciding to copy silicon valley recruitment processes, instead of thinking for themselves and trying to be innovative in that regard too.

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