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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."
John Kerry is a National-Socialist!
By the way, the Pistons are the 2004 NBA champs. SUCK IT KOBE!@
Is that an easy way to test the capability of your webserver? Post a link on slashdot? Cool I'm all game, those newfangled load testing tools cost big bucks! I'm all with you on this!
I will switch to AOL or anyone else who will let me mount a directory full of ready to run Linux software.
Hey AOL!
You do not have to write 1000,000 Java or NET apps.
Thousends of superb GPLed Linux apps are ready to be served to your users. Just serve the apps from OpenAFS (distributed filesystem).
Hey Microsoft!
Pray that nobody does this before you leave software/server business.
Simple, fire anyone in your organization that develops open source software as a hobby.
This is quite logical.
They prefer working on their projects instead of the work you give them, and quite often will work on their projects on work time even though they are not meant to. By firing them, you give them more time to work on their open source project which produces a better product. You then use their open source project for free. As it has improved, you do not need to buy commercial software and can save money.
So you have saved in two ways. You fire someone who is not working hard enough and replace them with someone more productive. And if enough people fire their open source developers you can ditch your commercial software and get their products for free!
Oh how I love this free software business model!
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The Lakers got fucking owned. Now Kobe knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of rape. I still hope Kobe gets off, though. Is it really rape if the slut takes it from 3 different guys the same day?
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).
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca