The statement about Germany is misleading. It isn’t the Federal Republic of Germany which is making the switch but rather only the german state of Schleswig-Holstein.
This was made possible by Jan Albrecht, who is the current Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization for S-H.
And of course the next minister in this position will reverse that change as soon as possible because of some bullshit reason they pull out of their asses.
It’s likely he will stay for another 4 years since the state had their parliament election just 3 days ago and the current Minister president (Daniel Günther) is confirmed to stay. The Minister president chooses the individual ministers for his cabinet which means that he will probably want to keep Jan Albrecht because he already chose him as a minister 4 years ago.
But I guess we’ll see how this plays out in a few weeks or so.
Good for them!
I hope China adds help with the transition to Linux to their Belt and Road initiative as a lot of lesser developed countries could really benefit from dumping proprietary software and building a homegrown IT sector.
