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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: -1, Offtopic) by Orion Blastar on Tuesday November 28 2017, @08:17AM (10 children)
When Slashdot got bought out by Dice and other Scammers/Spammers, we moved to Kuro5hin and other sites like Metafilter, etc.
Heck when Infoworld Forums got destroyed because of astroturfing, they made that IWETHEY forum that still runs, but is boring and ban happy.
The DailyKOS to Reddit to Voat.co, gab.ai, vi.me, etc.
No matter where you go it is all about scamming and spamming and posting astroturf and banning anyone who disagrees with the mindset.
Youtube has done that, kicked out moderates and conservatives, but kept the pedophile porn producers that give them eyeballs that give them income. Pizzagate George Soros Liberal Progressive kiddie fiddlers just love it there.
http://blastar.in/k5/ [blastar.in]
Kuro5hin is gone! Soon this place will be.
I expect to be voted down by the troll and spammer and scammer accounts here for exposing their secrets. Either that or I get told my post is poorly formatted fool meme or something?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @08:32AM
Can you be the slightest bit specific as to what it is that's bothering you which would cause you to use the term "Astroturfing"?
...or any of the other gibberish you wrote?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:33AM
And how nice that is for you! Congrats!
It's possible. Could happen. What is a "fool meme"? What is a "something"? What is your opinion on Dark Matter and Manhattan gynecological services?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:24AM (2 children)
Heeeeeyy don't mod me dowwn u'll just prove I'm rightREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:05AM (1 child)
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/youtube-ad-boycott-pedophile-sexual-children-videos-1202622790/ [variety.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @11:11AM
Innocent videos uploaded by kids themselves attract creepy comments and scare already fickle advertisers. And yet it is still FUCKING OFFTOPIC.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 28 2017, @12:35PM (1 child)
SOMEONE needs to get LAID!!!
Just sayin'!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by Orion Blastar on Wednesday November 29 2017, @06:23AM
I am asexual with no interest in sex.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday November 28 2017, @01:26PM
You're being voted down because your post is from 2016, boring, and redundant.