bouh ,

French gendarmerie moved to Linux like a decade ago. They certainly have something about it.

uis ,
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Well, France exported a lot of socially important technology to underdeveloped nations. For example their "La Révolution" we imported in 1917 was core component of improving quality of life including reducing workday by 4 hours down to 8 hr/d, 5-day work week, universal literacy and later full universal education including higher education, universal healthcare and universal housing. Another technology we imported in same period was "Etat laïc", but we lost it in 2010s.

France certanly has something about it.

magikmw ,

There's a bunch of things french are doing themselves instead of importing exactly because they want to maintain technological independence and promote local industry.

bouh ,

I wasn't clear I think but I meant that they certainly have data about the migration to Linux.

beatle ,

Microsoft are deep into the government with exchange and Active Directory with most being migrated to Microsoft365 and Azure.

Add in MS Teams, SharePoint, MS SQL, 30 years of business rules living in old excel macros that ends up running the entire company.

Windows enterprise licences would be a tiny part of their spend and far too costly to mitigate away from. Most large corporations are virtualising old windows version just to keep their existing legacy apps runnings.

bulwark ,

Totally agree on Microsoft having a vested interest with being the US Gov main software provider and the spend a lot to keep it that way

chepycou ,
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@PuddingFeeling907 Don't think so but there should, For instance the famous Christian-inspired non-profit organization Emmaüs uses Linux to reduce the digital divide by repurposing old computers with https://emmabuntus.org/

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