[quietbritishjim]

> The “that’s nice but Denmark is small” comment is getting tiresome.

The parent comment didn't complain that Denmark or its overall government is small. They complained that this agency represents a small fraction of their government.

[nunobrito]

Yes. Typically is some town hall shifting to Linux and making a big fuss when literally million others are still running Windows.

Seeing an agency doing it is good, but still less than the French ditching Teams and Zoom altogether as country-wide policy.

[slow_typist]

But still, this is Denmark’s tech modernization agency. They follow an eat-your-own-dogfood stance.

Transforming the public administration is the logical next step. Something different happening here, not the town hall big fuss approach.

[MengerSponge]

It makes you wonder what critics think the process should look like?

Plan A: Just burn it down and rebuild FOSS in the ashes.

Plan B: The tech modernization agency can make the transition, document and enhance the process, and then guide less savvy users.

I dunno. Tough call.

[bonesss]

Also, how does government work?

Model A: some visionary gets a great idea and everyone across the board stops whatever they’re doing all at once to prioritize this one initiative, budgets and contracts and laws be damned.

Model B: the modernization department sets standards, those standards are mandatory in the governments procurement process. All suppliers know to update, everything swaps out as-planned over time, no one goes to jail.

I dunno. Danes are weird.

[MengerSponge]

I can't trust somebody with that many vowels.

[nunobrito]

Indeed, crossing the fingers to see if we finally have a proper transition.

[Spooky23]

It’s usually German towns or cities trying to drive hard bargains or fighting some internal political battle.

This is a different - the agency has more scope and with the ridiculous confrontation between the US and Denmark there’s no doubt active espionage targeting Denmark from the US.

[graemep]

Quite a lot of small bits on Denmark are moving towards this, but its still not every much in a country that is one of the most strongly motivated to not depend on the US (because of Greenland).

[Izmaki]

The branch of the public sector I'm responsible for is moving towards Cloud Native and Open Source where it makes sense. It's an interesting journey but far from cheap.