7 European Governments That Are Ditching Microsoft for Open-Source Alternatives
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Great initiative, terrible AI-written article with clickbait Elon ads.
Map from 1975 😄
I'd say 90s - no USSR but Yugoslavia is still on the map
The USSR is on the map - that big greenish thing in the east ...
It doesn't say USSR, it's divided into Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.
It's divided into the Soviet Republics I believe.
There's also Eastern Germany so the map cannot be from any later than 1990.
I'd say that's exactly when this map was made. Before the official reuninification but when the USSR was already falling apart, with these countries quickly becoming separate.
It's not a very good map no matter the exact time period
the countries were always separate within the union, it was a federation. they had their own flags and languages.
Not really, they had separate flags but in reality they were completely subordinate to the central government. Local languages such as Ukrainian and Lithuanian were repressed.
Also they were named "Lituanian SSR" or "Ukrainian SSR" unlike on the map.
Why is there still yogoslavia and the GDR on the map
Most of these listicle items are a decade old, at least the Munich one has failed. I'd also be surprised if the GDR picturesd in that map ditched Microsoft... I see so many accounts peddle their stupid AI aggregators here, it's getting annoying.
I'm not sure Munich can be regarded as a failure. MS corrupted the test case in every way they could. They couldn't afford it to be seen as successful.
https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/
Now it's not just cost but American can be seen as a reliable partner. Let anyone an American corporation.
I totally agree and I'm not saying FOSS is useless, quite the contrary. My only point was that articles like the above make it easy to frame the FOSS-hype as a nothingburger by being poorly researched, which is not what the movement needs.
Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn't true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.