The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.
For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
Hopefully they will pay for it and train their staff to use it. Otherwise they are just setting themselves up for failure and some “Christian Democrat” to accept a Microsoft bribe and claim there are “too many problems”.
P. S Thank you Trump for sanctioning the head of the ICC. Please sanction more people with the power to make pro opensource decisions 😍