Toy Penguins and Male Egos Drove Linux Acceptance

An anonymous reader writes "Germany's local and city councils have been pioneering the migration from Windows to Linux. Now, one of the IT staff behind one move has revealed how they persuaded workers to accept the changes. Stuffed toy penguins and Linux t-shirts helped to create an open-source love-in at the council offices, and they got a senior chairwoman to demonstrate the new system to the troops. Male ego stopped anyone claiming that Linux was difficult to use, once they'd seen that the 'weaker sex' could master it :)"

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Learning to use Linux can be difficult

[GonzoDave]

But Work Makes You Free

Re:Learning to use Linux can be difficult

[Anonymous Coward]

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XBox rules!!

[Anonymous Coward]

first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...

If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!

If marketing fails...

[darth_silliarse]

...the German authorities could always do what the Americans do best - the "USA vs Everyone" stance. A "SuSE vs Microsoft" stance would help seeing as SuSE is a Germany based distro

There's almost no difference

[NineNine]

You've obviously never seen a female Linux user. They look remarkably like the male Linux user: grossly obese, hairy, sweaty, smelly, lacking in social skills, and they often spit when they talk. It's anything but pretty.