cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38271574
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.
For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
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Huh, Open Desk? Why not LibreOffice or OnlyOffice? They’re both European and more widely used I’m pretty sure. Seems like a strange choice.
from a quick review of the webpage and the source, i can highlight two things.
first one is that it is commisioned by a german ministry. this can mean something between germany wants to have something they can influence to some personal deal that someone did to get some extra income
second one is that it appears to be closer to a pre-configured set of software to deploy, more than new project. it’s closer to the likes of yunohost or linuxserver. it just deploy already existing foss software using kubernetes and pre-existing configuration
it appears that it uses collabora (somehow related to libreoffice, but not sure how much) as the docs component
I don’t know about Open Desk, but they better be contributing to the project 😡
