Campaign for Free Software in the Bundestag

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 6, 2002 @10:38PM from the click-here-to-renew-your-license-to-govern dept.

mpawlo writes: "According to Swedish IDG.se, the president of Microsoft Germany is outraged over the Bundestux campaign. The campaign aims to put Linux in the Bundestag (German Parliament). He has sent a letter to the campaign workers - some of them members of the German parliament - stating that Microsoft is not a threat to democratic values (as argued by the campaign). Kurt Sibold also states that the only thing achieved through the campaign is a public slander of Microsoft." Also reported by the Register, if you prefer English.

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there is a good point in there by CerebusUS · 2002-02-06 22:43 · Score: 2, Flamebait

Choosing software JUST because it's open sourced is just as bad as choosing software just because it's closed.

The proper way to choose software is by looking at the individual problems you are trying to solve and deciding what will best fit.

and anyway, how did you THINK Microsoft was going to respond?