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Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) – but no Linux desktop
Open source in the public sector doesn’t fail because of technical issues. It fails because it’s not aligned with the political agenda PRAGUE — At Open Source Summit Europe , Dr.
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Open source in the public sector doesn’t fail because of technical issues. It fails because it’s not aligned with the political agenda PRAGUE — At Open Source Summit Europe , Dr. Laura Dornheim, Munich’s chief digital officer, said in her keynote speech that Munich abandoned its LiMux Linux desktop deployment for Windows over a decade ago because of politics, but now it’s returning to open-source software.
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