


Munich to Go Ahead with Linux After All 142
Saeed al-Sahaf writes "According to Groklaw and the German publication Heise (it's in German, of course) Munich's mayor Christian Ude has held a press conference, in which he said that the bidding process for the switch from Windows to Linux will go forward as originally planned, despite patent issues. InfoWorld (in English), quotes Bernd Plank, a spokesman for Munich town hall, saying that he expected that the administration would take a maximum of 'two to three weeks' to decide whether the EU's Directive on software patents could affect the city's plan to switch to Linux, and that would be no 'dramatic setback.'" We reported this earlier as well, but now that it's making the rounds again in English, more of us can read it without resorting to Babelfish.
No fish? (Score:5, Funny)
What the hell fun is that?
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Die microsoft die (Score:5, Funny)
Die Linuxboxen runnen sofwaressen mit du lieber! (Score:3, Funny)
Der fingerpoken filterin Unix tochen English softranslaten Deutch offen. Sour kraut.
Re:Discounts? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Show respect (Score:3, Funny)
What do you expect Microsoft to do ? Break their legs ? "Mr Ballmer is very unhappy about all of this..." Move ? Even if this might be a foreign thought for some people here: MS is not the Mafia, it is not the Spanish Inquisition and it is not someone's secret police. They are just a (albeit very big) corporation. Munich is still free to do what they like. Courage, my ass.
Re:Die microsoft die (Score:1, Funny)
Obligatory Family Guy Reference (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why (Score:1, Funny)
The people who filed for the patents knew they were unenforceable at the time, and no garantee was ever made that they would ever be made enforceable.
Caveat Emptor, suckers.
Re:Discounts? (Score:1, Funny)
Sure we did! And it would have worked if it hadn't been for those stupied allies...
Obvious arm twisting. (Score:5, Funny)
Germany probably demanded something extreme, like perpetual access to source code.
Re:Die Linuxboxen runnen sofwaressen mit du lieber (Score:4, Funny)
Well, to give you a hint: she calls me Hunnybun. I call her Bunny-Hun.
Get the picture? ;-)
Sure, some Germans (mostly northern Germans) have had their sense of humor surgically removed. But most that I know have a pretty black sense of humor, too.
Cheers,
Ethelred
Re:Discounts? (Score:2, Funny)
one would almost be convinced these weren't bureaucrats, but aliens who have taken the place of the bureaucrats.
In related news, Munich government reps have been asking about something called a "Continuum Transfunctioner". News at 11.