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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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  1. solarkraft · · focus · HN ↗
    Awesome! I believe NixOS is perfect for systems you just want to work and track reproducibly, like appliances (which a lot of server software is supposed to be). I’m glad people smarter than me are actually able to realize its advantages =)

    In the same space, also check out openDesk initiated by the German Government (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendesk.eu&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opendesk.eu&#x2F;en) and La Suite by the French one (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr&#x2F;).

    AFAIK, there has been some collaboration with the German government on La Suite, not sure about the others.

    1. mastermage · · focus · HN ↗
      This realy would be a great way to foster collaboration within the EU. To create an own independant Ecosystem outside of the microsoft world.
      1. steinwinde · · focus · HN ↗
        Isn&#x27;t it counterproductive for every European country with a bit of extra money to develop its own open source software stack?

        Don&#x27;t the stakeholders perceive this as a problem, too?

        Or is it inevitable, given how differently these bureaucracies are structured?

        1. Forgeties79 · · focus · HN ↗
          I’m hardly an expert, quite the opposite, but I imagine coordinating all those groups across multiple countries that don’t have a unified bureaucratic system would undo any disadvantages of just working on them independently and open sourcing at all. In theory they could all start borrowing from each other eventually.
        2. mastermage · · focus · HN ↗
          Oh sorry that is what I meant i would like this to be a EU wide ecosystem working together.
        3. selfhoster1312 · · focus · HN ↗
          It&#x27;s not just a structure problem. The needs are different. And monoculture is always bad, so developing a plurality of solutions is a good idea.

          I&#x27;m not saying every small administration of a 200-souls village needs to do this, but on the scale of a nation who has a GAFAM budget in the hundreds of millions of euros (probably, haven&#x27;t made the calculation), it&#x27;s not crazy to invest a few million on a side project like this to reduce dependency.

      2. opicciotto · · focus · HN ↗

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