The Operating System Industry is not that large in Germany. In fact I don't know any products except Linux Distributions, if you count them as Operating System.
Furthermore the German Army is not a mass customer like a Company like Siemens. I doub't that the average bureau worker within the army will have to switch operating systems to write their letters.
As a second point I would mention that I'm relatively sure that only the software is bought from an external country (e.g.: Monopoly MicroSoft/USA).
All maintenance / support is aquired from Resources within the country.
So no "argument" from a nationalist point of view.
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World Domination UK ! (do they still control the world with their marine forces ?) (ups ... wrong century)
If you still count the USA as a colony...
It's not Nationalism.
The Operating System Industry is not that large in Germany. In fact I don't know any products except Linux Distributions, if you count them as Operating System.
Furthermore the German Army is not a mass customer like a Company like Siemens. I doub't that the average bureau worker within the army will have to switch operating systems to write their letters.
As a second point I would mention that I'm relatively sure that only the software is bought from an external country (e.g.: Monopoly MicroSoft/USA).
All maintenance / support is aquired from Resources within the country.
So no "argument" from a nationalist point of view.