One State's Quest For Digital Sovereignty

 The news is that the German State is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice. Why is this of significance?

That's not the first attempt of the German State to break free of vendors by adopting open source software. We've recently witnessed another attempt in "Is The German State In Love With OSS?" in which the State adopted openDesk, the open source alternative to Microsoft's and Google's office applications.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/17151-one-states-quest-for-digital-sovereignty-.html