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Open Source Cities Followup — Munich Yea, Vienna Nay
We're catching up on two stories of municipal engagement with open source software: Munich (which decided to go OS in 2003) and Vienna (2005). E5Rebel brings us news that Munich has stayed the course. But bkingaut informs that Vienna has decided to migrate back to Windows (Google translation) — to Vista no less. The migration of 720 computers used in kindergartens will cost the city about €8M. The given reason for all this is a language test application for the kids that only works with MS IE and won't be made compatible (by the producer) with Firefox until 2009.
As an experienced developer of browser-based educational software and a cyber-security consultant, I can tell you that IE is much easier to develop for than Firefox.
Microsoft has always been developer friendly, and thats the real reason for their dominance.
Not only that, but what if they need browser support? Who are they going to go with Firefox? Nobody, because there is nobody.
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when IE doesn't?
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Write something different or better than what this clueless and incompetent lowlife has produced, obviously you haven't and the open source agenda probably produced some half-ass finished version which they think is great but no common joe opinions matter.
Yea because Microsoft controls the software developers and they never could have written it for Linux. Do programming languages not allow you to code for Linux?
I think the Open Source group is just pissed because they are not given a ride to the front of the line, they show up 10-15 years late to the game and cry foul on MS because it is so hard to get them to accept change.
Being short sighted in life does kind of suck though.