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German Parliament Considers Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sprechen-sie-linux dept.

daramannen writes ""The committee is examining whether switching the Bundestag's more than 5,000 computers to open source would improve stability and security, as well as save money, Schroer said. By the committee's estimate, implementing open source software throughout the federal government could result in savings of 250 million marks (US$116 million)." "

3 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. The german govt. is already OSS friendly by steve.m · · Score: 5, Informative

    the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology help fund the development of GnuPG.
    Check out the press release.

  2. fearing espionage / some states alread switched by eMago · · Score: 4, Informative

    The administration of the state
    Schleswig Holstein already switched to Linux some time ago.
    Other administrations (or parts of them) are switching currently.

    The main reason is not the money but Germans fear that there are hidden backdors in US commercial software. After Echelon they don't trust
    US closed source software anymore.
    There are rumors (and proofed facts) that the US is doing economic espionage on German firms.
    The administration could be the next target...
    So they try to become independant.

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  3. study shows Germans major Open Source developers by pjones · · Score: 4, Informative
    A study, we did at UNC in 1999. Showed that .de is the second most common email ending of open source contributors following only .com

    European mail endings accounted for 37% of all contributions!
    http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/develpro.html
    for more including graphs.

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