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Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal

Posted by timothy on from the und-jetz dept.

Skip Franklin writes: "IBM and the German government are getting together to implement Linux as the government's computing platform of choice. The deal is being touted as a big blow to Microsoft, although personally I prefer the glass-half-full perspective of a big win for Open Source. The BBC has the story."

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  1. Leave your licences on the train platform by gelfling · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It will catch up with you - you are merely being relocated to the east.

    Linux uber alles.

  2. Obligatory by smooc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    HEIL LINUX ;-)

    (just for fun, nothing meant by it)

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    - In Memoriam: Jeroen de Bruin (1972-2004), bye bro
  3. Re:great news for open source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is pretty sickening with IBM's past, seeing as how Germany, IBM also signed a LET'S EXTERMINATE EVERY JEW ON THE FUCKING PLANET DEAL in World War II. Disgusting.

  4. Aren't reunions great?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, the wonderful people that brought you Nazi rule over Europe are combined again with the wonderful company that made the Holocaust possible (and profitable). Throw in a Stalinist-inspired operating system, and you have the trifecta of destructive totalitarian evils. Congrats, Linux, you have truly found a home (other that the pinko factories that pass for universities now).

  5. Wow! by Ace905 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Wow, this will be the first big partnership between IBM and Germany since they helped the Nazi party record and sort all non-aryans, cripples and homosexuals for segregation, internment and slaughter.

    Bet you don't see that on their home page.

    Big Blue? SolidBlue.

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    Ace