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Microsoft Alternative in Extremadura, Spain

Posted by timothy on from the penguins-come-in-all-sizes dept.

grylnsmn writes "The Washington Post today has a front page article talking about how the Extremadura region in Spain is converting all government offices, businesses, and home from Windows to Linux. The article talks of their problems last spring and how the community banded together to solve them. "But the glitches are more an annoyance, [Ana Acevedo, who heads one of the government's document-processing units] said, than a hassle. 'It's mostly very tiny things,' she said." Overall, this is an important testbed for localities all over the world who are looking at making the switch. Overall, a very good and balanced article." Update: 11/03 20:37 GMT by T : Headline misspelled "Extremadura" as "Extramadura" -- fixed now.

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  1. LINUX SUCKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    TOO bad MS is TEH WIN with teh new RULING THAT SAYS Tehy can put open Suorce outs of busyness 4eva.

    THX BILL

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Re:Microsoft says it isn't war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I see that you too recognized that Disney has the trademark on the correct spelling of "copyrighted" too. Good job. I'm glad to see you're on top of things.

  4. Re:Dear Lord protect me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    USE DEBIAN AND APT-GET DUH!
    (probebly why they chose debian based distro in the first place)

  5. Re:Redundant by NineNine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You silly, silly little bitch. I didn't say anything about Windows in my post. I simply said that /. is getting damn redundant with all of the "switching to Linux" articles.

    And yes, you do sound like a crazy zealot who's also trolling pretty hard.

  6. Europe Centric! by samfreed · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is so NOT US-Centric! Haleluja!

    As someone who bitched before about /. being US-Centric, Bravo!

    Call me a bigot if you must, but to me, the exposure that the non-US and non-English speaking community is getting here is EVEN MORE refreshing and anti-monopolistic than the unseating of M$.

    To be perfectly American about it, Yee-haw!

  7. Re:It can work by Greebz · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    If Microsoft dies, what will Gnome and KDE copy?

    Oh yeah... MacOS X....

  8. Re:pretty impressive- learned from AOL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    "Linux, its just like AOL, but less useful"