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It's a shame that so much taxpayer money is flowing to US multinationals.

To save money, the solution IS NOT austerity

https://psacunion.ca/psac-statement-upcoming-federal-austerity-budget

To save money, get rid of waste.

Every province, every government department, should get rid of Microsoft and Adobe.

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[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

No we should continue to be dependent on a foreign corporation who's president attacks our sovereignty and Microsoft admits that US law supersedes Canadian sovereignty. /s

[–] subarctic5128@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

not sure Ubuntu is a great solution. but I do agree that there need to be changes made.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 36 minutes ago

One of my contracts works with some gov types.

There's a LOT of enterprise Linux already. The validation problem in debs makes bunt and any other Debian derivative valueless; they can't compete when things like iso27002 is tossed around.

But yeah, still f'n office and word and excel and all the other metastatic cancer we've had since the '90s but worse. We need to get on an openXchange T-bird setup; soon.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We'll make our own distro!!! With hookers and blackjack!

Canadebian? Canadarch?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Canadabien to make it bilingual

[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

Doing my part! I take credit for preventing a taxpayer funded contract with IBM to provide software solution, where there was an open source alternative (that's actually better than the product IBM was selling).

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Yes and try out a BSD, folks! Choices (in no particular order):

So why choose BSD over Linux as an open source operating system to run on your computer? Because BSDs feel much more cohesive as operating systems! Every Linux distribution I’ve ever used had the feeling that it was still sort of a cobbled-together patchwork of software with a package manager and repository to maintain it.

BSDs, on the other hand, feel like they’ve been designed as a unified whole by a group of people whose goal is to build an operating system. With this comes better organization and documentation. BSDs also include software projects that are written specifically for the operating system.

If you try a BSD and start to like it, you may want to check out BSDCan, North America’s Largest BSD Conference. This year’s conference already took place in mid-June but all of the talks have been posted to the BSDCan YouTube Channel.

Lastly I want to say that if you’re very comfortable with Linux as your daily driver OS but still potentially interested in BSD, you can always give it a try on a spare computer. All of the above BSDs (except DragonFly) will run on a Raspberry Pi, for example.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago

I mean, yes we should, in the long term, but there will be short term retraining costs, inevitable required exceptions for edge cases, and we're not going to be able to get out of our contracts until they're actually over.

Also, given that the austerity budget is being driven by our NATO funding requirements to the tune of 150B per year, I don't think this is really the same order of magnitude discussion.