Munich is ditching Linux in favor of Windows 10, at a cost of €49.3 million:
The Linux love affair of the German City of Munich, which decided to favor Linux in 2003, is finally over. The city has officially cleared the plan to bring back Windows 10 on about 29,000 PCs.
In 2003, when the city decided to switch to a Linux-based desktop called LiMux and other open source software, it showed that free software could be used on a large scale. However, things didn't turn out the way they were planned.
Coming back to the recent development, the politicians who supported the switch said that Windows 10 will make it easier to source compatible application and drivers, according to TechRepublic.
[...] Linux enthusiasts should also note that the city's IT Chief has previously said that any concrete technical reason doesn't back the move; it's all politics.
Also at Engadget.
Previously: No, Munich Isn't About To Ditch Free Software and Move Back to Windows
Munich Reveals Preliminary Costs for a 'Return' to Windows
Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday November 28 2017, @08:39AM (1 child)
Any evidence of this? I don't believe this, as it would not be something their customers (that is, the advertisers) would like.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by Orion Blastar on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:37AM
Sure the major news companies did not cover it. It is something called Elsagate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate [wikipedia.org]
https://www.westernjournalism.com/crowder-says-youtube-silencing-conservative-views/ [westernjournalism.com]
It is really nothing new:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google [wikipedia.org]
They keep finding rings like this one:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42108748/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/massive-online-pedophile-ring-busted-cops/ [nbcnews.com]
You have to be living under a rock, or listening to fake news to not have heard about these things:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/26/hollywood-child-sex-abuse-in-focus/ [washingtontimes.com]
Youtube's customers and advertisers would not like sexual videos aimed towards children even if they are paid ads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/ [reddit.com]
https://news.vice.com/story/youtube-kills-ads-on-50000-channels-as-advertisers-flee-over-disturbing-child-content [vice.com]
Youtube pulled ads but still keeps the videos up.
Those conservative channels where shut down, and not brought back up, but migrated to http://vid.me/ [vid.me] instead.
So why ban conservatives but keep pedophile videos up, only take away their advertising and not ban and censor them?
I've never seen links like this submitted here and if they were, most likely would be voted down.
Anyone who votes down this comment support the pedophiles' videos on Youtube.