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Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft

Posted by Unknown on from the campaign-funding-brought-to-you-by-windows dept.

alphadogg (971356) writes with news that the transition from Windows to GNU/Linux in Munich may be in danger The German city of Munich, long one of the open-source community's poster children for the institutional adoption of Linux, is close to performing a major about-face and returning to Microsoft products. Munich's deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that user complaints had prompted a reconsideration (Google translation to English) of the city's end-user software, which has been progressively converted from Microsoft to a custom Linux distribution — "LiMux" — in a process that dates back to 2003.

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  1. What a bunch of Wuss by vivek7006 · · Score: 4, Funny

    These Germans. Cant follow through on anything. Fascism, Nazism, linux ..... No wonder they got their asses whooped by Americans. USA ... USA ... USA ...

    1. Re:What a bunch of Wuss by bobbied · · Score: 4, Funny

      These Germans. Cant follow through on anything. Fascism, Nazism, linux ..... No wonder they got their asses whooped by Americans. USA ... USA ... USA ...

      Yea, they are the wurst...

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    2. Re:What a bunch of Wuss by TheBilgeRat · · Score: 2, Funny

      This.

      Anecdote time: I have a sysadmin friend who manages a regionally successful food chains POS machines. When trying to upgrade the system he recently pushed to adopt a SQL database and a proper web interface for it, all running Linux (They were/are just dumping data into excel spreadsheets). The managements response? "Why would we want to run that communist software?"

  2. Clearly this is all just a misunderstanding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    From TFA, some guy named Limix invoked the right to be forgotten. Nothing to see here, move along...

  3. Re:Surprise? by bobbied · · Score: 3, Funny

    MS money made the users hate the experience.

    Well, I agree MS Money was horrible and I much preferred Quicken, but I'm not sure how that has anything to do with a desktop in the office...

    (Removing tongue from cheek now.. )

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    "File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101