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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative

www.euractiv.com International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv

Because Microsoft blocked chief prosecutor Karim Khan account, the ICC is moving away from Microsoft to Open Desk.

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For anyone wondering: openDesk, the solution they're using, wasn't developed from the ground up. It contains standard open source tools like Nextcloud, Matrix and Collabora.
- It’s sort of bothers me that government business will be handled in the cloud of some random company. Sure, a lot of these things are open source but… Do we get to compare checksums?
  
  It's not a random company. OpenDesk is produced (maintained? Developed? Packaged?) by ZenDiS. ZenDiS is a company that belongs 100% to the german government. It's not a ministry, but a company. Kind of like the german railways (DB).
- They'd be doing an enterprise install but here's the gitlab readme for the open desk community edition and with links for a Kubernetes installation:
  https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk/
- This is fantastic! First time I hear about this project!

I'm glad they finally had an easy to understand example of why depending on a closed source ecosystem from a foreign country is insane for any kind of public authority.
- Especially one that is currently collaborating to help carry out a genocide.

a German-developed software
a [...] software
\sigh
That's like requesting 1 happiness or 11 lovely.
- I'm glad I'm not the only one who is bothered by this shift away from software being a noun.
- If it makes you feel better, this may be a mistranslation from German where saying "eine Software" is appropriate.
- The software in question consists of at least 3 softwares. Thus
  1 software = 3 software

Microsoft Office: it’s not even good enough for international criminals anymore ™

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