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The petition is open to all EU resident. The goal is to replace all Windows in all public institution in Europe with a sovereign GNU/Linux.

If the petition is successful it would be a huge step forward for GNU/Linux adoption.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    1·
    10 days ago

    Only the end-users would have rights to the source under GPL, and its unlikely that someone is going to risk their job by releasing the code.

    I’m not sure how FOI would work, but I dont think they just automatically get approved.

    I still expect it to be done in the open, one of the things Munich got right was upstreaming all their changes, which meant that even when it was cancelled, nothing was lost. Maintaining out of tree changes is just way to much work

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 days ago

      Only the end-users would have rights to the source under GPL, and its unlikely that someone is going to risk their job by releasing the code.

      Fair point. So I suppose that would be the employees using the distribution rather than the entire populace.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 days ago

      I still expect it to be done in the open, one of the things Munich got right was upstreaming all their changes, which meant that even when it was cancelled, nothing was lost. Maintaining out of tree changes is just way to much work

      Would you be able to cite a source for this Munich program? I’d like to read more about it.