Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal 382
Skip Franklin writes: "IBM and the German government are getting together to implement Linux as the government's computing platform of choice. The deal is being touted as a big blow to Microsoft, although personally I prefer the glass-half-full perspective of a big win for Open Source. The BBC has the story."
backwards? (Score:4, Funny)
All they need now... (Score:2, Funny)
Linuxkraut?
Re:Oh joy. (Score:2, Funny)
Is this what they call BBC English? (Score:3, Funny)
HAL 9000 may have been a who(m) as opposed to a what/which, but crashing was certainly an option for HAL!
Re:Linux hate (Score:2, Funny)
Not that anyone cares...
Bah... Just use active directory and XP Pro. You'll never EVER crash!
ROFL!
Re:All they need now... (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)
In fuhrer news... (Score:1, Funny)
"It's the only way we can supress freedom of choice", Bill 'Hitler' Gates said on Monday. "We won't stop until the inferior Open Source has been destroyed." Reponse was mixed. Somebody played RTCW, and whupped some M$azi ass.
Re:Why IBM? (Score:3, Funny)
:)
Re:All they need now... (Score:2, Funny)
But... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait...
Re:Oh joy. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is this what they call BBC English? (Score:5, Funny)
They hate that.
The Staying Power of Monoliths? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, 30 years ago I would not have believed a statement beginning this way would imply victory for the little guy!!
Germany misunderstood (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh joy. (Score:2, Funny)
gänse fleisch mal den küfferüm üffmache?
linüx rühls
a german from hamburg
Re:All they need now... (Score:4, Funny)
Important parts of the MS interview left out! (Score:2, Funny)
It says that switching to open source can damage a country's indigenous IT industry, because some varieties of open source software place restrictions on copyright and intellectual property. "Imagine if the software industry were tied in to restrictive licenses with unreasonable terms. How could anybody want to function in an environment like that?"
It also says that it is a more reliable partner than smaller, less well-established open source distributors. "Consider IBM, this open-source dot com the German government has decided to do business with. What's their track record? How long have they been around?"
"Any policy that favours one thing over another isn't helpful," a Microsoft Europe spokeswoman told the Journal. "That's why we support our applications on a wide variety of operating systems. We want users to have the choice of where they want to go. That's why we provide software for all version of Windows!"
Does this mean we have to call it GNU/Germany? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Germany misunderstood (Score:2, Funny)
The War was over, germans where way past their reserves and the Marshal plan was due and germany (west) was to be brought to strength again to serve as a good buffer to the commies. The american headquaters gave word across the atlantic to ask what the germans would need (food of course).
The germans back then ordered some x-hundred thousand tons of corn. (Korn) And got x-hundred thousand tons of what AMERICANS call corn. For more than a year then the germans ate corn-bread, corn-cereal, corn-soup, canned corn
I guess they should have ordered grain or something like "x of wheat and y of barley".
Anyhow, most certainly one of the funniest missunderstandings in recent history.