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Oh wow, I wasn't really online at that point in my life but I wanted to read more about it - were these the articles/threads you remember? Munich Finally Start

Oh wow, I wasn't really online at that point in my life but I wanted to read more about it - were these the articles/threads you remember? Munich Finally Starts to Embrace Linux, September 26, 2006 - https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/26/0236246/munich-finally-starts-to-embrace-linux https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/26/0236246/munich-finally-s... Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft, August 18, 2014 - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/08/18/2219253/munich-reverses-course-may-ditch-linux-for-microsoft https://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/08/18/2219253/munich-rev...

mairusu 3y ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...
mandevil 3y ago
Those articles for sure, but my memory is that it came up an awful lot in most linux slashdot discussions: Munich was cited the proof that this now was finally the time that normies would use desktop Linux, it was just turning the corner, this time definitely. Definitely remember going rounds with people over whether OpenOffice would be the spear to destroy the evil MS/Wintel monopoly (this discussion was definitely before the LibreOffice fork and Oracle murdering original flavor OpenOffice) and Munich was the main example to discuss. Of course, nowadays there are more *nix based GUI's in the world than Windows: between all of the various Apple products (XNU) and Android (Linux) you have the vast majority of the consumer GUI's in the world. Because most of us wasting our time in the linux slashdot forums missed how the world was actually going to change. Any resemblance to us now sitting around on Hacker News is purely coincidental I'm sure.