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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. Maybe not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The rest of the council disagrees (google translate)with the second mayor.

  2. Bribery and corruption by Ynot_82 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From arstechnica
    http://arstechnica.com/busines...

    Microsoft announced last year that it was moving its German headquarters to Munich. This move is planned to take place in 2016. While Reiter was involved in the deal that precipitated the move and describes himself as a "Microsoft fan," he says the criticism of LiMux is unrelated.

    Limux is a project which, up until 3 days ago, has been widely reported as successful. It's been going on for 10 years for god's sake.
    Now, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it's a failure - according to one politician.

    This is a single politician in the german government trying to derail the project for personal gain.

  3. Re:Surprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A better article has the answer:

    But Schmidt's comments have already been derided (translated from the German) as appeasements to Microsoft, specifically since the company is already doing a migration of its own: It's moving its German headquarters to Munich, and expects to be operational there by Summer 2016.

    http://www.fierceenterprisecom...