The United Nations opts for an open source alternative to Google Forms.
    • Victor@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Dang, like, would it have killed someone to put it in the title of the article?

      Thanks, bud.

  • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Honestly, it boggles my mind that governments use proprietary software when an open source alternative is available. Why waste people’s money for something that gets enshittified a little later, anyway?

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    14·
    3 days ago

    The article is from May; has anything important related to this happened in the last few days, or why are you posting this now?

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    at least for one of their recent initiatives.

    Oh and it’s for the ‘UN Open Source Principles initiative’.

    Kinda makes it seem like this is a ‘pr’ move rather than an actual institutional change, intended for a single event?

    Although the initiative itself could very well bring that about.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      Well they got spurned by Google pretty badly already which is why this is even on the table now

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        We all get spurned by Google and Meta and Microsoft on an ongoing basis for the last 20 years but no one ever actually does anything about it.