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Rome Moving to Linux
fmstasi writes "La Repubblica, one of the main Italian newspapers, reports shortly about an interview (in Italian) with Mariella Gramaglia, Communication Councillor at the Municipality of Rome. They are planning to start soon trying Linux on the desktop: 'The first tests will concern e-mail, address book software and sharing systems', she says. The Councillor also says that motivations are political rather than economic: 'In the short term, the money saved on license will have to be spent on training'. It seems that there haven't been any reaction yet from Microsoft: 'At Microsoft they know how much we esteem them', she says; 'for example, they are sponsoring a campaign to spread the use of computers among the elderly. And we'll keep on cooperating with them on other projects'. Maybe Microsoft also appreciates that there is (yet) no project of migrating all the clients? The Municipality has about 9,500 clients, so an eventual migration project would be slightly smaller than the one taking place in Munich."
A horse will be appointed governer!
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Don't expect to see this right away. After all, the Roman network wasn't built in a day.
(Sorry.)
tc>
Most Americans don't understand science, and they wouldn't like it if they did.
Hopefully we can shift London to where Rome was before and finally get some decent weather.
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I live in Rome, Georgia, and I have to say that everyone here is switching to Linux nonetheless. Well, not everyone, but my large list of friends. =)
It's a fact that things that piss us off, we do not like to continue to use. And well, you know how Italians are... Sorry Microsoft; better them use a different product than yours, than them holding a Godfather-shootout in your HQ in Redmond.
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
"Those of Microsoft know the esteem that we have for they"
"The Common one of Rome ahead slowly towards Linux"
Can you move from M$ to Linux and still kiss M$ ass in the same article??? For the first time I really noticed it in an article.
Evolution or ID?
A year or two after that maybe we'll start seeing stories about the stranglehold Linux has on the desktop.
Roman Gnome in Rome... right?
Are you Corn Fed?
All roads lead to Linux!
Good to see they're giving up bad software for lent.
ThunderBird. Nuff said.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
Arise oppressed masses, cast off your start button of enslavement, GOD IS WITH US!
Rome didn't switch to Linux in a day, ya know!
FLR
...Roman guards, under orders from Lineius Torvalds, seized Billus Gates as he camped outside the city. Formal charges are yet to be announced, but already crowds of Linux zealots are picketting the courthouse with signs that read "Penguify Him!"
now we'll have Roman Catholic Zealots join forces with the Linux Zealots?
...the Huns, Visigoths, and Vandals are running XP. It is said that some of these barbarians are running Windows For Workgroups, but that is just too horrible to believe.
Then we really could call non Linux users heretics.
I came. I saw. I Konqueror-ed.
No, italian mafia is Powered By Linux :)
> telnet www.mafia.it 80
Trying 212.78.66.135...
Connected to www.mafia.it.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:53:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:41:36 GMT
ETag: "18094-5e-3e8b04b0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 94
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
Did anybody else find themselves reading the article like they were practicing for a role on the Soprano's?
I didn't do it on purpose, but halfway through the article I thought to myself "Self, why are we reading with this ridiculous accent?" Crazy, huh?
A prominent cardinal enters the Pope's chambers with good news and bad news.
The good news, he tells the Pontiff, is that the Vatican has received an email from God himself!
The bad news is that they've traced the IP address to an ISP in Salt Lake City, Utah.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Yep, and then Linus and Andrew will be in Washington DC, complaining they need the 'freedom to innovate'.
And they'll be in Washington because Microsoft sued them under Sherman A-T.
But the judge will say: 'It wasn't them kept you out of their markets - it was your inferior software!'
And then we'll all have a party. Again.
Good. I'm glad you remembered that Rome wasn't ported in a day.
Anonymous Kev
Proudly posting as AC since 1997
(Finally got a dang account in 2004)
Grizzled old MS vets will pine for the days when people really knew how to get inside the registry, and writing a good VBScript wasn't a foreign concept.
For some reason, that message seems more ominous in that context.
Quintus: People should know when they are conquered.
Gatesius: Would you, Quintus? Would I?
<insert witty linux comment here>
I was hoping it was "Rome" meaning the seat of the Catholic faith. If the Vatican went Linux it'd be hard to call Linux users Commies.
...I'm all for more intuitive interfaces ;)
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Said Steve Ballmer, reeling from being penguined in the back.
... OpenOffice.org is adding mouse gestures.
No big deal: in Rome, they're used to this.
org.slashdot.post.SignatureNotFoundException: ewg
Probably some time after they notice how much they're saving by using metric measures. I'm amazed that the US actually has a decimal currency -- with the conservative attitudes they have to these things I'd expect they'd still be using pieces of eight (though that's what "two bits" refers to).
They switch the name of openwriter to "Cervantes", the famous Spanish writer, author of Don Quijote. They did the same for all of the applications and
I don't know about you, but I'd find it quite confusing if every application was named "Cervantes".
Because all the big distributions allow you to install LaTeX..
The Vatican using Linux and knowing there are Cardinals (wearing red skull caps) on staff to use it brings on a whole new meaning to "Red Hat Linux"
You may now groan.
Wouldn't it be easier to bring Linux to Rome?
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
Arividerci Microsoft...
All roads now lead to Linux??
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Steve Balmer must be getting some serious jet lag by now. Altough I bet hes damn glad he coughed up the cash for a private jet!
Waiting for the tooltip to appear, I guess.
Icons causing mass hysteria? In Rome? Makes sense, I suppose -- last time that happened, we ended up with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
E.
I feel like we should have a giant map with battle lines on it, and maybe some little plastic penguins marching across it.
"Germany is freed", "we've captured rome"
anyone want to photoshop a map?