Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: flatfish+++ Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Munich city planning to move back to Windows and Office from open-source software Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:43:54 -0500 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <20775a928fb0a359afd0f7e14deadd98@anemone.mooo.com> Reply-To: flatfish@linuxmail.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net kPLLjuR/gf93vj4BHWdbMwjDc/GzOugKskC6wJv95xVIl8ry5c Cancel-Lock: sha1:or5wy7GBiQVw9YW3wGu7IgCj0Xw= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.84 Xref: csiph.com alt.privacy.anon-server:54534 alt.comp.os.windows-10:29798 comp.os.linux.advocacy:381095 comp.sys.mac.system:97018 On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:33:40 -0500, Wolf K wrote: > On 2016-11-17 19:25, flatfish+++ wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:19:53 +0100 (CET), Jeremy Bentham wrote: >> >>> Back in 2003, the city of Munich announced its plans to switch >>> from Microsoft Windows to Linux on 14,000 PCs which were under >>> usage at municipal government. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer flew >>> to Munich to meet the mayor to reverse their decision. But they >>> declined Steve Ballmer¢s request and completed their plan in >>> December 2013. The sad news is that the end users were not so >>> happy with Linux and the government was also not happy with the >>> price savings it offered when compared to Windows. >>> >>> Today, TechRepublic reported that Munich is planning to move >>> back to Microsoft Windows and Office on its PCs.[...] >> >> I, along with several other so called Windows "trolls" predicted this >> many years ago. >> >> The entire migration plan has been a disaster and the prediction has >> always been that as soon as the end users got their say, and it leaked >> out, the revolt and ultimately the return to Windows software would >> transpire. >> >> It's just another example of how desktop Linux is not suitable for the >> average, non-technical end user. >> >> The Linux loons will be silent on this one as they search for some way >> to discredit the claims, blame the users, blame Microsoft, blame >> anyone or anything but the true source of the problem which is desktop >> Linux itself. > > There is no "desktop Linux". There are desktops that run on Linux. > Subtle, but important difference. The reason that Munich's switch to > Linux failed. Fair enough. I meant Linux running as a desktop system rather than a server, super computer, embedded Linux etc. Those are areas where Linux does well. > > PS: What the hell is "LiMux?????? It's the city of Munich's home grown distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux -- flatfish+++ mariana trench