@mloxton The discussion and activities in Germany are slowly getting underway, but the federal government alone is spending some 500 Million alone on MS licenses. And a federal attempt to spread a federal open source solution pisses all the universities off, because they get MS Office for free and shall pay some €40 per student per year (because the „Bund“ wants to profit from the states). As always: if it's not football, Germany screws up.
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A while back, Microsoft, complying with a demand by the US government, locked the account of a worker at the International Criminal Court, because, reasons. -
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Nach der Solartechnik und dem E-Auto hat China auch noch die bessere Wärmepumpe.@sarahlehmann Tja, das ist ungefähr die gleiche Strategie, die auch die BRD vor ca. 60 Jahren gefahren hat und mit der man Export-Weltmeister geworden ist. Nennt sich aktive Industriepolitik.Und dann kam der magere Staat, der uns immer noch als „schlank“ verkauft wird.
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"The world’s most amoral, psychotic, and dumb people might actually destroy humanity.@touaregtweet The question is: is it correlation or causation? And if the latter: in which direction?