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[-] chinstrap@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Apple products are too expensive (iphone is 8 months of minimum wage), universities are pushing Linux, some government facilities are using it(Turkey has its own distro for government see Pardus etc

[-] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Good to hear that the government is using it.

Taxpayer-funded activities should run on FOSS when possible, in my opinion.

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