My home state of Bavaria is planning to spend 1 billion Euros in the next five years on Microsoft products. One fucking billion Euros!
Meanwhile, the state of Schleswig Holstein has been transitioning to open source software and estimates that it will save them around 15 million Euros a year.

Maybe it's time to move. People up North seem to be smarter.

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Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions

Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}