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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

The dream here, in FOSS terms, is that governments see the massive potential value in using FOSS, and start actively contributing to it.

Imagine if the German or Danish government puts the people on their IT payroll (who are now maintaining Microsoft systems) to maintain FOSS systems. This would be a huge benefit for everyone, if enough big actors do it, it may be what pushes stuff like Microsoft into being a niche service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

People in government IT jobs who maintain Microsoft systems aren’t going to be contributing to FOSS codebases. They’re not developers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They can report unusual bugs though and SHOULD be competent enough to write good bug reports

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I don’t know how many government workers you’ve met, but I wouldn’t have much hope of that haha