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Munich Votes for Linux Migration Plan

Posted by michael on from the killer-penguin dept.

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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  1. christian socialists by fermion · · Score: 1, Troll
    Since some are so fond of relating OSS to socialist and communist schemes to destroy the free market, I think it is good that a major socialist party is against OSS. After all if the socialists like closed source software, nee MS, certainly no self respecting patriotic conservative Amercian can support it.

    OTOH, does the fact that christians socialists are against OSS mean that we might see a crusade against OSS users. Is it time to prepare our attics?

    --
    "She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
  2. One step forward for Linux Community by KrisCowboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ain't that a slap on your face, Mr. Gates? With hardware becoming amazingly cheaper, who wants a costly software? Free all the way.

  3. Re:the CSU does NOT have won the EU elections by provolt · · Score: 0, Troll
    btw, i don't even understand why there are religious parties in a democracy.

    Why would people who share common beliefs and ideas want to form a political party to promote their beliefs?

    Don't these fruitcakes know that in a democracy the only allowable religion is atheism? Don't they know that because the state doesn't force a religion on people, they can't gather around their beleifs?

  4. Re:the CSU does NOT have won the EU elections by kzadot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah the CSU in Bavaria rules in Bavaria, and it HAS made Christianity the official religion on Bavaria, whith Catholicism having a higher status than Protestantism. Ok, so its still possible to buy contraceptive, so its "liberal europe" in that sense, but the legal status of abortions is in a grey area, all holidays are Catholic, church tax is collected on behalf of the church by the state, you have problems getting married or buried if you arent catholic (or at least dont pay the tax), and its still an ultraconservative police state. Nah, this aint liberal, there is no official separation between church and state like in the US for example.