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Old 03-02-2011, 05:30 PM   #1
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LXer: German Open Source Experiment: Things Not Going To Plan


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Recently, the Foreign Office of Germany made the announcement (translated news report) that it is migrating away from Linux back to Windows as its desktop solution. We've covered the concept of national adoption of Linux at a government level a couple of times before, but this is one of the first cases of a government moving back the other way. The most important action that community can take at this point is ask, “why?”

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Old 03-02-2011, 06:02 PM   #2
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As far as I followed the discussion, the change back to Windows has far more political reasons than technical. It also seems so that a part of the staff didn't want to use or learn to use Linux, and then blamed Linux for everything they themselves haven't accomplished.
Poor world, where such people are responsible for the foreign relations of a country.
 
  


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