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City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration
Jan0815 writes "Yesterday I received disturbing news from the CTO of Munich, Wilhelm Hoegner. As previously mentioned, there is a rising concern that software patents could stifle development of open source worldwide. FFII has complete coverage of what is going on in Europe." (FFII stands for Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure.) Reader jmt(tm) writes "The call for bids was supposed to be published in late July, but the Munich Green Party had pointed out about 50 possible patent conflicts which the city wants to evaluate before moving on."
What do you expect ? Nazis love microsoft. Bastards killed my family.
Yes.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
He asked for an example, and you basically reiterated what he wanted an example of. Your hopythetical example is what's supposed to happen, in reality, it doesn't.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Personally, I never saw the big deal regarding Munich. Most of the reports indicated that yes, they switched to Linux, but they ended up running Windows in VMWare on most of those machines anyway, which was rather humorous. But I suppose it is a good first step.
...you know who else was democratically elected in Germany?
No, that's what they're supposed to be about. Patents are supposed to cover implementations of ideas that are novel and non-obvious, not ideas wholesale.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
It appears that the Green Party (Die Gruenen Partie) is now a subsidiary of Microsoft international operations, especially that one ....and that was the OLD
alderman that appears to be bought. What did
the microsofties do.....plant a womans panties
in his car....plant drugs on him....do other stuff
to him to get him to cave. We are talking billions
of Deutschmarks of profits here nationwide and
worldwide. That bunch of crapheads and their
two hundred and so patent story knew what they were
doing in spreading the politics of fear. It is my
guess that they are microsoftie traitors as well.
No matter, the question will be resolved eventually by war anyway. China is developing its
own software. They will NOT be moved by outside
money or pressure. If Gates goes there peddling
his narcoware, they will simply eventually copy
it and maybe even sell it worldwide through their
allied countries just like they are providing
nuclear arms to Iran. They KNOW that windows contains spyware and viruses....they talked to
Sadaam Hussein and he told them how it was used
against him when it was imbedded in military devices supplied to him
windows when it was a lot smaller. They have their own linux distro...Red Flag Linux! Just think of that name and why they named it that....
to carry the red flag of revolution to the world's
poor. All the lawyers and suits and courts and
patents and copyrights and DRM in the world will
not stand a day against and army of 75 million men.
This was a clearly political decision by the politically motivated American-hating Nazis at Munich to go with Linux in the first place, instead of going with a clearly much cheaper Windows solution which made more economic sense, as well as offering a superior technological solution.
The more these creeps at Munich suffer, the happier I am.
They brought everything on themselves.
I've studied the history of the Green's in Germany as well as the rest of Europe.
Their views on a variety of issues are pretty darned predictable. To this conservative they are almost always goofy, but predictably goofy.
This time their objections are totally out of character. I don't know if Germany has the transparency of political donations that exists in the US.
I want to know if donations from Redmond can be the reason for the Green's sudden interest in possible patent violations. Didn't Steve Ballmer go ballistic when they lost in Munich?
The Green's are believers in the old axim, "the ends justify the means". I have no problem believing they could justify taking Microsoft's money and putting it to "good use" for their cause.
What I want to know is their any way this can be checked?
Man Holmes