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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: 2) by Bot on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:44AM
The free market economy would be: most successful businesses, which by obvious mathematical properties are mafia owned outfits, grow bigger and bigger until they can afford to buy politicians' time, get favorable business with the government and get favorable laws passed. This ends the free market just like nepotism ends ideologically charged authoritarian governments. One generation.
A different story would be:
1. I am the government. Regardless my origin.
2. Things need to be done to make society flourish, who am I kidding, to prevent society to collapse over self interested sociopaths scheming.
2b. Money is a good incentive to make people do things.
3. People need a way to store surplus and exchange good.
3b. Money is a good way to do that.
4. Therefore I will control Money by making sure money is enough to exchange goods and not too much to be unable to store value. This is the utopia, but communist, fascist, free market, theocratic utopias are FAAAR worse than a math equation over how much money state really needs.
4b. I will pay state officers and buy things using money issued by ME.
4c. People will think my money is just paper, until I demand a growing percentage of taxes to be paid using that money, until I demand transactions with state to be done with that money.
4d. I might even not need taxes if I issue enough money for the bureaucratic machine to work and for people to do their transactions.
5 I wait for coups, massive sabotage at every level, and for the international community to bomb me with an excuse or another because I have just broken free of The True Current Government.
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