Anyway, this week has also brought many really positive things.
Yesterday morning I had a meeting with a public institution. The people in charge are really good, both technically and as human beings. We’ve known each other for almost 20 years, and we’ve been working together ever since.
“The institutions above us are pushing to move everything to closed solutions. We see things differently.
We’ll keep running our email with open source solutions, just as we’ve done until now, without problems. We’ll keep using LibreOffice, providing Open Source operating systems on the PCs in our libraries, managing our files and collaboration with systems like Nextcloud.
We don’t want to depend on closed clouds run by third-party companies.
We want our consultants working on our machines, looking after our data. Not their consultants working on their machines, with our data inside, which effectively becomes theirs.
Can you keep supporting us?”
I had a late lunch.
But the photos of my lunch should make it pretty clear what my answer was, and how happy I was to give it.
They’re not refusing to move forward. They’re refusing to follow the trend of locking themselves into someone else’s cage.
Luckily, the world is also full of really good people.