Munich to Go Ahead with Linux After All

Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday August 11, 2004 @07:18AM from the bring-on-the-penguins dept.

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "According to Groklaw and the German publication Heise (it's in German, of course) Munich's mayor Christian Ude has held a press conference, in which he said that the bidding process for the switch from Windows to Linux will go forward as originally planned, despite patent issues. InfoWorld (in English), quotes Bernd Plank, a spokesman for Munich town hall, saying that he expected that the administration would take a maximum of 'two to three weeks' to decide whether the EU's Directive on software patents could affect the city's plan to switch to Linux, and that would be no 'dramatic setback.'" We reported this earlier as well, but now that it's making the rounds again in English, more of us can read it without resorting to Babelfish.

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Re:Die Linuxboxen runnen sofwaressen mit du lieber by BarryNorton · 2004-08-11 08:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Moderators: is it really funny, and not redundant, to make these same jokes every single time Germany is mentioned?

Yes, they talk differently (from y'all).

Yes, you shot at them in the 1940s.

No, this is not doing your public image in Europe any damned good!