alt Hacker NewsNearly one year ago the German federal government passes an amendment to law on preferential use of open source software.
Now they push projects like OpenDesk[1] to fully replace MS Office (365) and OpenCode[2] where they open-source all software that is build with public money.
In my view, this has led to the German economy having more confidence in open source, and that open source can be used and maintained as a model for software over a period of 5-10 or even more years. Instead of buying licences and hoping that the manufacturers will maintain the software for at least 5 years and provide updates. In addition, there is the realisation, not least as a result of the change in the law and the current global political situation, that sovereignty is a very important factor.
[1] https://www.opendesk.eu/en
[2] https://opencode.de/en && https://gitlab.opencode.de/explore
To me the "opendesk" effort looks like a lot of not-open source "licensed" software ("with less than x% closed source") and a handful of wrappers around other people's open source software (diagrams.net wrapped as cryptpad, for example). In fact they recommend the "enterprise edition" which is NOT fully open source, right?
It says all the right words and has a flashy landing page, but doesn't seem very open or impressive; am I wrong in my assessment?