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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @07:34AM (4 children)
Your reply is what is called a "straw man argument".
No one said everything should be thrown out in one rash coup; no one said anything about a jarring revolution.
However, in order to get evolution of the organization of society, there has to be some kind of selective pressure; that's why it's important to keep in mind some far flung ideal, such as a society that is organized without a government (that is, a society organized without "do-as-you're-told" coercion).
Sure, there will be authoritarian support structures along the way, but eventually those will be dismantled, carted off, and utterly forgotten, leaving behind a complex, robust, anti-fragile libertarian structure that neither requires men to be angels nor denies that each man is individually self-interested.
Evolution, not Revolution. Variation and Selection yield the Invisible Hand.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:42AM (2 children)
If it is not organised by government it will be organised by local bullies and gang leaders. I know that you are likely to reply that government is the bully, but that would show that you do not really know what a bully is. As least the government is impersonal and not local.
If you want to see how anarchy works in practice, take a look at this [wikipedia.org] period of English history.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 28 2017, @12:18PM (1 child)
Soooo, which one of the Black Adders was this?
Just, you know, ....context...
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday November 28 2017, @01:44PM
Well given that the first series takes place at the end of the middle ages, I'd say it's a prequel of some sort.
(Score: 2) by boxfetish on Tuesday November 28 2017, @03:49PM
Right! Sort of like how the "authoritarian support structures along the way" in communist China and the former Soviet union were eventually dismantled, carted off, and utterly forgotten.
Oh, wait...