French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/
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I live in Lyon, and I'm soooo happy to hear about this ! 🤩
Yeah you can be proud of your city for such a thing.
Je vis à Genève et j’adorerais qu’on suive votre chemin en la matière.
The US government flaunting its effective tyrannical control of its tech companies are, somewhat ironically, helping the EU get away from that control by being encouraged to swap to Linux and FOSS.
In my tired daze I mistakenly read ONLYOFFICE as OpenOffice and was about to yell No!
The article does well and links to their other article on the OO 9.0 release, which explains why it's probably a smarter choice for this office situation when compared to LibreOffice:
ONLYOFFICE is one of two options that comes to mind when I think of a solid Microsoft Office alternative on Linux, the other being LibreOffice. Both offer a range of useful features and support a wide range of document formats. What sets ONLYOFFICE apart, though, is its focus on collaboration and generally reliable compatibility with Microsoft Office files.
Add also the Calligra Suite, above it's from the EU (KDE), full compatible with MS Office files apart of the OpenDocument format (Linux, currently no stable Windows version)
I mean yeah, it exists, but have you tried using calligra for anything productive? It is missing so many basic features and has lots of annoying bugs.
So 2025 is the year of the Linux desktop?
I waited 20 years for this.
I've heard this "year of the Linux desktop" thing for 20 years in a row, to the point that it has become a meme. Even if the recent events bump Linux market share up by just a single percent, I'm still happy.
I'm sure this is common knowledge but Lyon's worker uprising in the 19th century is the origin of the word 'sabotage'. The workers were protesting against semi-automated loom weaving machines that used punch cards like primitive computers. When the managers weren't looking the workers would through their shoes (which were called "sabos") into the mechanism to break it.
Just got back from a holiday in Lyon. Super interesting place! I got the impression that the quality of life was good for the locals. Met a bunch of friendly Lyonnaise at a music festival and they were extremely generous sharing their party supplies.
Edit: I believe Lyon workers movement were also originators of slogans like "workers of the world unite"
No one is too big to fail. Always remember that.
The French city of Lyon has taken a major step toward digital sovereignty by officially starting a move away from Microsoft software. . The city is gradually set to replace Microsoft Office with open source alternatives like ONLYOFFICE and switch from Windows to Linux-based operating systems to reduce dependency on proprietary offerings.
never heard of ONLYOFFICE, any good?
It's entirely web-based (their desktop app uses electron). It is quite good, has no problems with editing Microsofts shitty formats and offers a feature set on the level of office 356 web.
Downside: made by a Russian company which has since re-incorporated in Singapore I think.
It's an open source product, in case you have concern about possibility of malicious code embedded within it.
I’m honestly surprised it took this long for enterprise to openly reject American tech.
The diversification that world markets are going through right now is wonderful tbh. Even at such a small level, we're getting so much great stuff at the grocery store to replace all the American brands my country has all but rejected now. Love seeing it at the enterprise level too, we might see a lot of other countries start having growing tech industries in their regions now.
It’s certainly going to hurt my country terribly but I’m at least happy that it will help so many others.
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Good for them! More of this, please!
M$ sucks and so does US. 🤡 🖕 💩
The US is what happens if you push enshitification on a national scale for too long.
You start with a genuenly good setup. Then you reduce investment, cut corners and reduce spending as much as you can to squeeze out every possible bit of profit.
That works for a while, because you can coast along on prior investments, but at a certain point the game is over and all you are left with is a tide of shit that nobody wants anymore.
To even consider that projects carried mostly by volunteers and underpaid staff making a meager living off donations can rival the products of the world's largest software corporations is laughable, and yet here we are.
And not only because FOSS alternatives have gotten better over the years, but mostly because big CSS projects have tanked in quality.
I don't know who did this map. But, Lyon is in the wrong place.
The Lyon does not concern themselves with Microsoft