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The City of Barcelona kicks out Microsoft in favor of Linux and open source. The Barcelona city administration will migrate its existing systems from Microsoft and proprietary software to Linux and Free and Open Source Software. First the user applications will be upgraded to FOSS. Once all proprietary applications are removed, the proprietary operating systems will be removed. Around 70% of the software budget will be invested in FOSS with the goal being to help local talent through regional small and medium-sized businesses. Additionally, 65 developers will be brought in and kept in-house to work on custom packages and other customization needs.
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The City of Barcelona Will Go Open Source by Spring 2019
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:12PM (10 children)
There is no FUD.
Indeed, there is a long history of both governments and non-governments using the threat of alternative software to bring Microsoft to heel during license negotiation. It's a very common occurrence. I worked with a corporate contractor who used this very tactic over and over; it was his main workhorse.
Language matters; it shapes how one thinks about the world.
There is this strange propensity to conflate a government and a people; the past millennia have proved that is a dangerous way to view the world.
A city government is NOT the city; a city government is just one—preferably quiet—organization that comprises a city.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:25PM (3 children)
One: There is a long history, particularly with manufacturers, for Microsoft to threaten to revoke licenses for Microsoft products of people who switch to Free Software. Claiming that such switching is only tactical is part of the same ecosystem
Two: Must be a libertariantard. Not so sure about Barcelona, but Francisco Franco is still dead, and it says in the Pre-amble to the United States Constitution, if we may take this as a model in regards to such matters, "We the people. . . .". The Government is the people, or in Latin, the Res Publica.
Evidently the shill was trying to make us uncertain of this, and trying to make us Doubt the moving to Free Software is a good idea, because we are afraid that Barcelona would not actually go through with it.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:42PM (2 children)
Nowhere can you deduce that that the OP is trying to make you doubt any virtue of moving to "Free Software".
People coming together at some point in time to form a government does not imply that said government is synonymous with that people.
A government is just another organization in society.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:05PM
Sure I can! I just did! We went over the same ground with the Munich case, and every other publicized case where governments have repudiated the Micro$oft defacto monopoly. We want to put fear in the hearts of PHBs that if they listen to their IT professionals, they may lose money big time, and Microserft may not let them back into the Charmed Circle.
This is just a idiotic statement, idiotic in the sense that it is made by a private individual who cannot comprehend being part of a community, and so looks upon his neighbors as prey. You, my libertarian AC, are a criminal, in thought already, if not in deed. I hope you get caught.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 12 2018, @12:59PM
> "free software"
you are a funny guy
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Thursday January 11 2018, @11:59PM (5 children)
> A city government is NOT the city
OK guys, raise hands whoever thought the summary implied THE WHOLE FUCKING CITY OF BARCELONA was switching to OPEN SOURCE IN A YEAR OR SO.
Trolling anon here wants to be sure we got it right.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2018, @05:06AM (4 children)
There's a reason that the language is this way, and it's not a pleasant reason.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2018, @05:23AM (2 children)
So pedantic idiots could attempt to confuse the issue? Do you see that sea of raised Soylentil hands? No? Neither did I. Begone, troll, before we shine the light of truth upon you and your dick turns to stone, and falls off, as it should.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2018, @06:26AM (1 child)
Also, are you not trolling by saying the other AC should have his dick turned to stone and removed? Weird shit, man; weird shit.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday January 12 2018, @08:59AM
Not removed, just detached by exposure to the light. It's a Unix thing. LPT1 is on fire.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 12 2018, @12:59PM
there's a reason nobody raised hands, too.
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