As open source is slowly getting quite famous these days because of the extensive surveillance by the system itself, and also depending on the large amount of bills to be paid to use their software, to be openly said, people wanted to keep their data with themselves and they do not want to share their data with anyone else, irrespective of having given consent on their own.
People have been thinking this way for a very long time. Now, governments are slowly starting to think that they want to keep their data within their own home country and they do not want to depend on US or other countries’ tech giants. Now the change is slowly happening.
The French government is planning to shift from Windows to Linux, and that is clearly understandable — they do not want to depend on US technologies, as they see this as a strategic shift as well. They want to work freely within their own digital ecosystem, and it is only possible through open source.
As a real-world example, Germany’s state of Schleswig-Holstein has shifted almost 80% of its workstations to Linux by 2026, and this has saved them €15 million in licensing costs alone.
As a general point of view, this is a good direction. If governments explore more opportunities in open source, the country’s people will also, slowly one by one, follow, and the whole digital ecosystem of the country will change.
One day the world will see everyone using open source software, or software created by themselves.
