I hope they don’t fall for it, but I’m sure they will.
The other alternative is Microsoft with Office365. If taxpayers are going to have to pay for one or the other, the cheaper one sounds like the better alternative.
I think you’re just thinking about word processing and spreadsheets neither of which covers the big things orgs want out of these suites: email, chat, video meetings, shared document storage.
They already have their own programs to do all that. They have had them since outlook was just a client and before Microsoft and Google offered email services.
The government should be using FOSS software simply to be a good stewart of our tax money.
They already have their own programs to do all that. They have had them since outlook was just a client and before Microsoft and Google offered email services.
I can’t quite tell what you’re recommending here. Are you saying the government should go back to using Sendmail SMTP servers, telnet or IRC chat, and NFS shares as replacements for modern enterprise communication suites?
Or maybe they just expect every state government (or worse, individual local municipalities) to roll their own personal cloud. Like have everybody set up a NextCloud server and just hope shit doesn’t fall over.
You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.
The people exist in the govt to make this happen, I assure you.
We’re all over the place.
THAT SAID there is distinct value in paying for a service and being provided guarantees by the vendor.
It would be tremendous cost to switch over to FOSS systems from the ecosystem that currently exists and unfortunately it’s difficult to get buy-in from anyone on either side of the aisle to approve projects on this scale.
The other alternative is Microsoft with Office365. If taxpayers are going to have to pay for one or the other, the cheaper one sounds like the better alternative.
There is also Libre Office. If they were serious about cutting government waste, they wouldn’t use Microsoft or Google.
I think you’re just thinking about word processing and spreadsheets neither of which covers the big things orgs want out of these suites: email, chat, video meetings, shared document storage.
They already have their own programs to do all that. They have had them since outlook was just a client and before Microsoft and Google offered email services.
The government should be using FOSS software simply to be a good stewart of our tax money.
I can’t quite tell what you’re recommending here. Are you saying the government should go back to using Sendmail SMTP servers, telnet or IRC chat, and NFS shares as replacements for modern enterprise communication suites?
Or maybe they just expect every state government (or worse, individual local municipalities) to roll their own personal cloud. Like have everybody set up a NextCloud server and just hope shit doesn’t fall over.
Yea, I would prefer that, a state founded agency which has the order to set up FOSS workspaces.
The tech is already here, all it needs is courage to ditch mega tech coorp.
Everything government must be transparent, in my opinion
You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.
The people exist in the govt to make this happen, I assure you.
We’re all over the place.
THAT SAID there is distinct value in paying for a service and being provided guarantees by the vendor.
It would be tremendous cost to switch over to FOSS systems from the ecosystem that currently exists and unfortunately it’s difficult to get buy-in from anyone on either side of the aisle to approve projects on this scale.
They should request private sector to write offers for produce the software and state in the contract that sources have to be FOSS
https://news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-open-source/