Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
edit: All I could find was this article about the Azure datacentres that they announced in 2021 finally opening, but I SWEAR I remember there being news reports around 2019-2020 of the Belgian government switching to Linux.
I’m not trying to say this is a conspiracy btw, I was living in Germany for school at the time and would watch the news to help with my German skills. This came up as an on-air discussion topic on whether Germany should do the same (which was shutdown pretty quickly LOL, apparently MS has a lot of influence in Munich).
If any Belgians have any insights or better search skills than me, they are welcome to correct me.
Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
Large cardboard boxes full of money were found in offices at that time.
In Germany microsoft made a deal to move its head office to München if LiMux was killed. There were probably other “incentives” as münchen ist in Amigo Land = corruption is rife.
Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
edit: All I could find was this article about the Azure datacentres that they announced in 2021 finally opening, but I SWEAR I remember there being news reports around 2019-2020 of the Belgian government switching to Linux.
I’m not trying to say this is a conspiracy btw, I was living in Germany for school at the time and would watch the news to help with my German skills. This came up as an on-air discussion topic on whether Germany should do the same (which was shutdown pretty quickly LOL, apparently MS has a lot of influence in Munich).
If any Belgians have any insights or better search skills than me, they are welcome to correct me.
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Didn’t a government entity in Belgium try to do the same thing until a bunch of Microsoft suits swooped in and “encouraged” them to stay with them instead? Hope France doesn’t do the same.
Large cardboard boxes full of money were found in offices at that time.
In Germany microsoft made a deal to move its head office to München if LiMux was killed. There were probably other “incentives” as münchen ist in Amigo Land = corruption is rife.