German Linux Migration White Paper Updated 122
TheRealDamion writes to let us know that the German Federal Government Co-Ordination and Advisory Agency (KBSt) has released an updated version of their Linux Migration guide whitepaper. This guide, originally released in 2003, is incredibly detailed offering assistance on a wide range of issues that could be faced in a migration from Windows to Linux.
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Chinese translation of the 1st edition available (Score:4, Informative)
The Chinese translation of the 1st edition of Migration Guide can be found here:
http://www.fect.com.tw/Docs/Migration.pdf [fect.com.tw]
The translation effort is sponsored by the FSOSS dEveloper Center @ Taiwan, aka FECT.
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Re:No mention of GNU (Score:2, Informative)
And one non-GNU, non-BSD kernel [syllable.org].
Political developments since 1st edition (Score:4, Informative)
German politics is in a period of major uncertainty now after elections in September had an outcome that gives neither of the two camps (Conservatives plus Liberals or Social Democrats plus Greens) a majority. The good news from an OSS perspective is that at least one of the two parties in the current coalition government (Social Democrats and/or Greens) will be part of the next government, and those parties are quite committed to open source even though the Social Democrats supported software patents in the EU Council (and some of them were relatively swpat-friendly in the European Parliament). There are a few German conservative politicians who also have a favorable perspective on OSS, but most of them don't care and some are downright negative about it. The liberals are ideologically pro-OSS, but of all German parties they're most susceptible to the influence of big-industry lobbying.
Re:No mention of GNU (Score:1, Informative)