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.
No mention of GNU (Score:1, Interesting)
I think it is quite a BAD sign when governments decide that the creators and maintainers of the GPL are not significant enough to mention in their documents. On top of that, they use the term "Linux" to describe the OS, and though they mention in pdf_datei.pdf that "Linux is only the core of the operating system", they go on "the non-core programs are parts of a so-called distribution". This is absolutely FALSE.
GNU is the operating system. It is the environment in which the Linux user lives. GNU tools are (if not the heart) the brain, lungs, arms, legs, and bladder of the GNU/Linux operating system. Without them, Linux is useless.
So, sure. Hooray that GNU/Linux is being promoted for use in Germany. However, this is a net loss for the Free Software community if the FSF and GNU are lost amid all the hoopla.
Spain has a lot of Official Distros (Score:4, Interesting)
Spanish oficial distros (From spanish Wikipedia):
Not for company CEOs (Score:4, Interesting)
This paper is a goodsend (yes I knew about the earlier edition. Got one in hardcopy on my desk) for a lowly public sector employee like me.
Why? because evertime I want to install any OSS somebody in the commity that decides on these things will whip out a ProprietoryGlossyPamphlet(tm) and ask me 'what about...' (license, support, copyright, patents, etc.) and will not believe any word I say. So I whip out my "Leitfaden für die Migration von Basissoftwarekomponenten auf Server- und Arbeitsplatzsystemen" and tell them what a federal agency had to say on that matter and they usually shut up.
The answers on legal subjects are aimed at the public service sector. While probably true for a private company, it is not the target audience.