Munich Votes for Linux Migration Plan

JoScherl writes "The German news site Heise reports (German, Babelfish version) that the city council of Munich (3rd biggest city in Germany, 1.3 million inhabitants) has voted for the detailed concept of the LiMux - Linux for Munich (German, Babelfish version) project with votes from all parties except the CSU (Christlich Soziale Union, christion social union). With this decision the 13,000 Desktops and Servers of the city administration will be migrated to Linux. CSU, which has just won the European elections, said they won't support Linux since its Feierabendprogrammierer ('leisure-time coders') would destroy Munich's IT-landscape (Microsoft Germany and other big companies are located in and around Munich) and they also fear that the personnel would have problems with learning how to use OpenOffice and other migrated systems. The migration plan has the following steps: This year the Windows NT desktops get OpenOffice and Mozilla as their default office and browsing suite. In 2005 and 2006 the systems will be migrated to Linux, with some applications running on Windows application servers. In 2008 all applications should run native on Linux."

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Scientology didn't like that and there was quite some fuss afterwards.

Well, that's how you could put it.
One could also say that back then the German Bureau for protection of the constitution ("Verfassungsschutz" - think "German NSA") officially anounced that they were observing COS. Which means that COS was (and still probably is) into some really bad stuff. It's not like he german NSA put organizations under observation every odd month. They usually keep such manners of dealing for Islamistic Extremists or Neo-Nazis. Or for the COS, for that matter.
Does indicate what kind off a threat something like COS actually is to a democracy and it's freedom loving people. Therefore german authorities actually are a tad twitchy when it comes to COS. It's nothing less than their duty. I'm actually suprised that COS can go by so unhindred in the USA, home of the free (TM).