Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

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The Dutch government is developing an open-source alternative to Microsoft products through the DAWO community, aiming to enhance digital autonomy, security, and verifiability in public sector IT systems.

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# DAWO.community Source: [https://www.dawo.community/en/](https://www.dawo.community/en/) ## What DAWO stands for DAWO brings public values and technology together\. The community pursues five primary goals\. ### Digital autonomy Strengthening the digital autonomy of the Netherlands\. ### Collaboration Improving collaboration and knowledge sharing between governments and society\. ### Security Safeguarding security and data protection\. ### Innovation Encouraging innovation and more efficient ways of working\. ### Verifiability Making government IT systems easier to inspect and verify\.

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