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Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows

posted by mrpg on Saturday February 18 2017, @01:02PM   
from the spending-a-huge-amount-of-money-for-zero-benefit dept.

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The city will investigate how long it will take and how much it will cost to build a Windows 10 client ahead of a vote on whether to replace its Linux-based OS from 2021.

A decade ago, Munich was at the vanguard of a movement towards open-source software, switching thousands of staff to Linux from Windows at a time when a move on that scale was almost unheard of.

After spending nine years and millions of euros on the project, today the city's politicians agreed to begin preparing to return to Windows by 2021.

Under a proposal backed by the general council, the administration will investigate how long it will take and how much it will cost to build a Windows 10 client for use by the city's employees.

Once this work is complete, the council will vote again on whether to replace LiMux, a custom version of the Linux-based OS Ubuntu, across the authority from 2021.

Source: Linux champion Munich takes decisive step towards returning to Windows

Before the decision: Statement by The Document Foundation about the upcoming discussion

Linux's Munich crisis: Crunch vote locks city on course for Windows return

Previous: No, Munich Isn't About To Ditch Free Software and Move Back to Windows

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• ''hobbyists'' (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @09:06PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @09:06PM (#468725)

  I'm not quite sure where you were going with that comment/link.

  I will link to this:
  Who writes Linux: Corporate America [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [computerworld.com]

  By January 24, 2008, when the 2.6.24 Linux kernel was released, over a thousand developers from over 186 companies were contributing to the Linux kernel. That doesn't count any work done on any particular Linux distribution or other open-source program.

  Breaking it down farther, in the 2.6.24 kernel, it appears 13.9% of Linux had been written by people without a corporate backer. In the case of 12.9% of the contributors, the Linux Foundation was unable to pin point exactly who the programmers were working for. The rest, 74.2% was written by paid developers.

  I can't image that the numbers have gone -down- since then.

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