Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline Stage Olsen, the country’s Digitalisation Minister, plans to move half of the employees to LibreOffice over the summer, and if all goes as expected, the entire […]
  • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Funny how one of our ministries saying they were doing a small test run of replacing Office 365 turned into a thousand terrible blog posts with misleading titles like “Denmark is ditching Microsoft!”

    In Danish we have a saying from H. C. Anderson “En fjer kan blive til fem høns” (literally “One feather can become 5 chickens”) about how a retelling of a retelling of a retelling of something skews it so much, because of mistakes or hyperbole, that it becomes unrecognizable. Like Chinese whispers or a game of Telephone.