W hile we’ve been reporting about an open source revolution sweeping Europe for a while now (see news in LXF68, LXF167, LXF174, LXF222, LXF264 and LXF265), it looks like a German state is planning to make the switch to open source software.
As The Document Foundation announced in a blog post (https://bit.ly/lxf285tdf), the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is in the north of Germany and home to around three million people, is looking to replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on all of its 25,000 PCs used by employees and civil servants by 2026. Windows will also be replaced by Linux. In the blog post, The Document Foundation says that “We at The Document Foundation are pleased that LibreOffice is being used in public institutions, and hope that more federal states, governments and other organisations around the world will join the migration.”