Windows, Office and Azure all being replaced. Aarhus announced they already reduced their dependence and their bill went from 800k dkk/year last year to 225k this year.

Replacement should be open source and European.

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      That’s what happened when Munich tried to switch away from Microsoft. A little chat with the mayor, they’ve switched their headquarters to Munich and thus payed taxes there, and suddenly LiMux was a failure…

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        That’s true however Denmark is the least corrupt country in the world and their democracy is stronger.

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          Unfortunately among the least corrupt doesn’t mean there isn’t corruption.
          How else do the Danish parliamentarians have a pension age 10 years below the rest of the population? (60 instead of 70)
          That’s pretty blatant and obvious corruption.

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            Letting parliamentarians retire early is not just good for them (it’s a cushy job anyway, don’t they want to keep their perks?), it is better for the country to let younger people take their place. As an example of corruption, this is the worst I’ve heard.

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              You can have term limits without allowing them to retire a decade ahead of the rest of the country. They would in that case just not be eligible to continue work in the parliament.

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              Yes because giving yourself benefits over the rest of the population is not corruption. 🤡
              Also it doesn’t prevent them from staying longer, maybe they get both pension and wage and benefits. IDK.

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                There are so many examples of petty, corporate corruption out there, this is not one, maybe if you stretch the definition to include people making decisions that also benefit them…they also set their own salaries, for example, I guess that is corruption too…so now you need a new word to call out actual petty and corporate corruption.