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Munich Said To Be Moving Away From Linux/LiMux, Back To Microsoft

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There had been rumors the past few years of the city of Munich switching back to Windows and away from their widely-known Linux environment while now it looks like that is indeed taking place.

Munich was widely cited in open-source circles not for their wonderful beers, food and Oktoberfest, but for their LiMux project whereby their city government switched away from using Microsoft products to using Linux and free/open-source software.


LiMux origins date back to 2003 while the transition had ramped up in 2006. More than one decade later, it's looking like the current government is interested in switching away from their desktop stack, which includes Ubuntu, KDE, and LibreOffice components, and back to Microsoft products.


http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Munich-Going-Microsoft-2020


EDIT: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-pioneer-munich-poised-to-ditch-open-source-and-return-to-windows/

Very sad to see them wanting to go in that direction.. Especially given that we are in a post Snowden world. One would think that freedom, autonomy, and clear insight into the code would trump, "Oh it's weird, it's different.. can't we just have MS office, cause I'm too lazy to learn..."


Freemor at 2017-02-10T14:25:01Z

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JanKusanagi at 2017-02-10T14:50:45Z