The article is conveniently leaving out the part of the story where Munich decided to revert its Linux migration only after heavy lobbying by Microsoft.
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To be fair, that was quite some time ago. Disgraceful but a different context to the movement we now have going on.
The context of rampant corruption hasn't changed a bit, though.
This is one of the most regrettable tales in history. :(
Also typical for German politics. Political corruption is practically legal in Germany. If you have enough money, you can buy pretty much any decision.
FYI, this comment is tagged as "Deutsch"
Oops, butter fingers. Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.
I mean, are there any countries where this isn't the case? Maybe in China or North Korea, but not much else.
Linus never was able fulfill Munichs use cases.
That's what politicians claimed, the people more involved with the project publically contradicted that. Whom to believe? Corrupt serial liars, or people actually working on the project?
As a dev for a german company serving cities among their customers i canโt wait to support Linux!
IMO there should come an European law that forces computer manufactuers to offer customers the option between Windows or Linux. This is a way to make Linux more mainstream, but still leaving the final decission to the customer.
Should this ever be the case, I am sure that Linux would become more popular, simply because the same computer would be cheaper just because of the operating system choice. Windows licenses aren't cheap.
You got the point.
Article is a year old
Is it going to be RHEL though?
Made me chuckle!
In the light of the most recent actions taken by a hostile orange. Having the gov run on Microsoft WAS a bad financial decision, but has become a strategic weakness now!
Linux is - legally - a U.S. product, backed by a U.S. Foundation, led by a U.S. citizen. Just saying.